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* [[Hypocrite]]: While Jones loudly complains about being censored, he either ignored or forgot to read the terms of service that appear on ''his own Infowars website'':
{{quote|'''Terms of Service:''' You will not post anything libelous, defamatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, or otherwise illegal. Remember: you are a guest here. It is not censorship if you violate the rules and your post is deleted.}}
:* For all his delusional claims about shadowy cabals of elites trying to organize acts of mass violence, he helped cause a real one, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/jan-6-rally-funded-by-top-trump-donor-helped-by-alex-jones-organizers-say-11612012063 as in 2021
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The goal of the Elite, according to Alex.
* [[Large Ham]]: So much that fellow ham [[Cenk Uygur]] was amused at his behavior.
* [[Media Research Failure]]: His "review" of the film ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''.
* [[Persona Non Grata]]: Mounting pressure from victims of mass shootings along with Jones's tendency to sow discord against minorities and people of other faiths forced social media outlets and web services to ''permanently ban'' Jones and InfoWars. Facebook, [[Apple]], YouTube, [[Spotify]], [[Periscope]], [[Roku]] and [[Twitter]] removed all of Jones's accounts and content posted by him or his affiliates, to name a few. Online payment service PayPal wanted nothing to do with him either. The official InfoWars mobile apps were also removed from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, in the latter case only in March 2020 because of lies and misinformation Jones circulated about the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] also banned his article from being made as the site's [[Censorship Bureau]] deemed him untropeable despite having a similar article on fellow conspiracy theorist [[David Icke]].
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Possibly used against him in the rotoscoped film ''[[Waking Life]]''. In it, he is shown yelling one of his monologues over a car loudspeaker, while the animation slowly increases his skin hue to brighter, darker shades of red. This could just be a simple exaggeration used in many pieces of animation, or a reference to the ''imprisoned psychopath'' who is shown in the same way earlier in the movie while he loudly and publicly devises the ''most harmful and painful way to kill the people who got him into prison in the first place''.
* [[Too Soon]]: ''Defied.'' [[Carrie Fisher]] had been dead for only ''a couple of hours'' before Jones did a show claiming she had been murdered to boost ticket sales of ''[[The Force Awakens]]''. It didn't go over well.
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