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Alex Jones will continue under his own name.
END OF AN ERA
The media outlet InfoWars has ceased broadcasting after 27 years on air, marking a dramatic end to one of the most controversial operations in modern American media.
Founded in the late 1990s by Alex Jones, InfoWars built a large global audience through sensationalist commentary, anti-government narratives and exposes of major world events.
At its height, the platform attracted millions of listeners and viewers through radio syndication, online streaming, and social media distribution.
I remember first seeing Alex Jones on an episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura in 2011, and began listening to him on YouTube. It was not long after that TOTT News was formed, largely as a result of calls by Jones for more independent media networks to form.
Regardless of whether you love or hate Jones, there is no denying InfoWars has had a significant impact on freedom of information and the campaign against the NWO.
I still remember the day InfoWars first posted a TOTT News video on their website:
His early documentaries like Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavementwere groundbreaking for their time, truly pushing ‘conspiracy culture’ into the multimedia era. Alex Jones rants against Bill Gates and the likes are still viral memes to this day.
Like most of you reading this, I drifted away from InfoWars as the years went on and the narratives changed in the Trump-era – for example, believing politics is real – but the impact of InfoWars, Prison Planet, ‘Banned.Live’ and others cannot be denied.
However, the journey has now come to an end. Years of legal pressure, financial instability, and mounting damages claims ultimately pushed the organisation towards collapse.
The closure follows bankruptcy proceedings linked to defamation lawsuits brought by families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.
Courts in Texas and Connecticut later ruled against Jones and his companies, ordering him to pay approximately $1.5 billion in damages. The judgments became one of the largest defamation penalties in recent U.S. legal history, leading to enormous financial strain.
According to recent reports, the final shutdown occurred after a court-appointed overseer managing the company’s bankruptcy process stopped funding operational costs associated with the Texas-based studio, along with website infrastructure.
The company’s final months were also shaped by a complicated legal dispute involving the satirical publication, The Onion.
The Onion is exploring acquiring elements of the InfoWars brand and digital assets through bankruptcy proceedings, with the intention of ‘transforming’ the platform into a parody project focused on ‘combating misinformation’.
They may take over under the same name, but I will never view it as InfoWars.
The collapse represents a significant moment in the wider debate over ‘misinformation’, online thought policing, and the influence of ‘truther’ media.
In recent years, major technology companies had already removed or restricted InfoWars content across mainstream digital platforms.
Services including Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts imposed bans or limitations over repeated breaches of ‘misinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ policies.
For years, critics argued that InfoWars profited from spreading falsehoods that damaged public trust and endangered individuals targeted by its broadcasts.
Supporters of Jones, meanwhile, frequently framed the lawsuits and platform restrictions as attacks on free speech and political dissent.
Despite the closure, Jones has signalled that he does not intend to leave broadcasting.
Reports indicate that he has already shifted much of his activity towards a new online venture known as the “Alex Jones Network”, while continuing to publish material through independent websites and social media accounts.
The end of InfoWars closes a chapter in internet-era broadcasting that will never be forgotten. Over nearly three decades, the outlet became both enormously influential and deeply divisive, shaping ‘conspiracy culture’ in the United States and beyond.
Throughout the decades of thinkers and personalities to come along, Jones will always hold a spot as the one that truly went mainstream – becoming a household name.
Decades of truth seeking by various individuals became vindicated with the rise and spread of Jones and his theories, as the larger picture pierced through societies across the world.
Today, the veil has been lifted – and those with ‘eyes to see’ are ready for the agenda.
THE INFORMATION WAR
Alex Jones and his InfoWars operation came along at the perfect time – as ‘conspiracy culture’ was going mainstream during the rise of the internet.
The substantial growth of New World Order conspiracism stems from previously apolitical literature of numerous Kennedy assassination theorists, ufologists, ‘lost land’ theorists and – partially inspired by fears surrounding the “Satanic panic“ – occultists.
One of the earliest text that gave whim to an ‘evil international control structure’ was The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903), which reported to be the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where Jewish leaders discussed goals of world hegemony by subversion.
Henry Ford, a character you may remember from our Brave New World analysis, funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the United States in the 1920s.
For the Thought Police reading this – yes, it was a ‘hoax’, okay. Don’t hunt me down.
The rise of dystopian fiction in the early 20th century would also contribute to this field of work, including author and futurist H.G. Wells and his 1940 book, The New World Order.
Some of the earliest advocacy groups, such as the John Birch Society, disseminated a multitude of ‘conspiracy theories’ in the 1960s claiming that the governments of both the United States and the Soviet Union were controlled by a cabal of corporate internationalists.
The group was founded in 1958 by Fred Koch, father of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who described civil-rights legislation, the rise of the welfare state, and regulations around occupational safety as evidence of a coming one-world government.
Mary M. Davison would also be influential, and in her 1966 booklet The Profound Revolution, she traces the conspiracy to the establishment of the U.S Federal Reserve by bankers she says formed the Council on Foreign Relations as a shadow government.
At the time of publishing, readers would have interpreted these “bankers” as a reference to the earlier spreading of the Zion conspiracy, masterminded by the Rothschild family.
‘Conspiracy culture’ gained acceptance following the controversy of the Kennedy assassination, in which the population discovered hidden hands at play for the first time.
Later books that would amplify the themes of communist and international infiltration would be found soon after in contemporary best sellers like John Stormer’s None Dare Call It Treason and William Guy Carr’s The Red Fog Over America and Pawns in the Game.
Following the spread of these ideas, American writer Gary Allen would introduce the ‘why’ factor in his books None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1971), Rockefeller: Campaigning for the New World Order (1974), and Say “No!” to the New World Order (1987) — articulating for the first time the anti-globalist theme of contemporary conspiracism in the U.S.
Allen would become one of the first to argue the term ‘New World Order’ is used by a secretive world elite dedicated to the eradication of the sovereignty of the world’s nations. His first book would go on to sell 5 million copies alone.
Alex Jones credits None Dare Call It Conspiracy as directly influencing his awakening.
From the mid-1990s onward, the amorphous appeal of those subcultures transmitted a ‘New World Order conspiracism’ to a larger audience of seekers of ‘secret’ knowledge, with the common characteristic of disillusionment of political efficacy.
The movement would gain further traction following the speech, Toward a New World Order, delivered on 11 September 1990 by President George H. W. Bush – describing objectives for post-Cold War “global governance”.
Hollywood conspiracy-thriller television shows and films also played a role in introducing a general audience to various theories related to New World Order — which by this point had developed to include black helicopters, FEMA “concentration camps”, etc.
The 1993–2002 television series The X-Files, the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory, and the 1998 film The X-Files: Fight the Future are often cited as notable examples.
Pat Robertson, William Cooper, David Icke, Linda Thompson, Mark Koernke, Robert K. Spear and others would emerge as prominent ‘conspiracy’ figures of the 1990s – including in Australia, with the beginning of publications like New Dawn Magazine.
The rest is history, as they say.
Alex Jones and a plethora of personalities would continue on the legacies of those who came before, leading to the state of affairs in the media landscape we see today.
Much of the so-called ‘alternative media’ today will deliberately seek to entertain an audiences by relying on fear tactics such as stereotypes, sensationalism, and bias content to create a ‘must-see’ atmosphere for viewers to tune into and be captivated by.
The movement itself has become no different from the mainstream media culture they all campaigned against for decades, which we have explored on TOTT News in-depth.
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Perhaps Alex’s finest moment was quite early in his career (2000), when, with cameraman Mike Hanson, he broke into the notorious satanist retreat for the US rich and famous, Bohemian Grove in California…and made a documentary about it.
After the massive Sandy Hook fine, he seemed to open himself up to accusations of controlled opposition, especially from David Icke. There is still a school of thought that he was right about Sandy Hook, i.e. that it was a false flag psy-op.
Though this is the end for Info Wars, Alex will continue under his own name, which is good.
Hi, Graham, can you tell me more about the Bohemian Grove doco? And a friend listens to David Icke and I am concerned, do you have more information why he is controlled opposition please? Thanks
Just read this long piece on Substack from the brilliant researcher “AGENT131711”.
“Alex, tell us it ain’t so!”:
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=1865725&post_id=197102123&isFreemail=true&r=3echlt&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDU0OTU4NDEsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE5NzEwMjEyMywiaWF0IjoxNzc5MTkxODMwLCJleHAiOjE3ODE3ODM4MzAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xODY1NzI1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.Hr8Nw3Nx6WsAwP49Lq7d6cKp6d2_4zjCdse81d_9i8M