Alex Jones has told viewers there is a "99% chance" that a run of outages, including the Microsoft 365 failure, is "a giant cyber attack", in a three-minute video seen by JAM. He says he is "royally pissed" and that his "gut is sure that this is really bad". Microsoft says there is no sign of a cyberattack. The clip ends with a plug for a survival-supplies website and 10% off a first order.
What Alex Jones says in the video
- He lists Microsoft being "down", barges hitting cruise ships "under remote control, obviously", satellites that control GPS, and "nationwide radar outages", and calls them "completely different systems".
- He says the attack "may be a false flag", "probably the Russians and the Chinese, the Iranians and the North Koreans".
- He says nuclear weapons have been "loaded on the border of Russia" and that most of the cabinet has been moved to bases. He gives no source for either claim.
- He says he predicted this when Bill Gates warned about "rogue AI" and offered "a global government AI" as the answer. He also says Gates "ran the COVID attack".
Was the Microsoft outage a cyber attack? What the record shows
Microsoft. A global Microsoft 365 outage that began on 12 November hit Outlook and Teams for businesses, schools and government bodies. Microsoft has said there is no indication of a cyberattack and has pointed to elevated load on its infrastructure after servers became unexpectedly unavailable, Cybernews reported. Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Microsoft had told him it did not believe a cyberattack was the cause, Reuters reported. Microsoft has promised a root-cause explanation; JAM had not seen one at the time of writing.
The FAA ground stop and air travel. Jones does not name the FAA. His reference to "nationwide radar outages" may relate to the US ground stop on 13 November, but that is JAM's inference. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed a communications issue at air traffic control centres, and the Washington Examiner, citing two FAA employees, described a "rolling frequency outage". Neither the FAA nor Mr Duffy had given a further cause when JAM last checked.
Barges, satellites and GPS. JAM could not find reports of a barge hitting a cruise ship in November 2026, or of a satellite or GPS outage. That does not prove they did not happen, but Jones offers no source.
Russia and nuclear weapons. Russia did send NATO a warning at the end of September, and on 1 October Vladimir Putin said Moscow would use "all weapons" in its arsenal if its territory, including Kaliningrad, were attacked. He did not say whether that meant nuclear weapons, AP reported. JAM found no report of nuclear weapons being loaded "on the border of Russia", and no Putin quote matching "we're gonna nuke you".
Bill Gates. JAM could not find Gates saying what Jones attributes to him.
The survival-supplies pitch
Near the end, Jones tells viewers to "get ready" at survivalnation.com, which he describes as offering storable supplies, solar panels, communications, water filtration and storage, and "less lethal weapons". He says the first order gets 10% off and asks viewers to "support the info war" there. JAM has not established what financial link, if any, Jones has with that site.
A cyber attack claim that cannot be disproved
Jones's case is built so that more outages count as proof. "If you keep seeing more outages," he says, "then you know it's part of a larger super attack." As framed, an outage with a plain technical cause, which is what Microsoft says this was, does not seem to count against it. That is JAM's reading of the clip, not a statement about what Jones believes.
JAM has not yet put these points to Jones or to Survival Nation. We will add any reply.
Sources used for this report7 verified links
- Reuters via The Star: Australia's spy agency, federal police hit by Microsoft outage
- Irish Examiner: A global Microsoft 365 outage has hit millions
- Cybernews: Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Outlook, Teams worldwide
- KSAT: Flights are halted at airports across the United States due to unspecified 'extraordinary circumstances,' FAA says
- Washington Examiner: FAA imposes nationwide ground stop on all flights
- AP via NY1: Putin says Russia will use 'all weapons' in its arsenal if any of its territory is attacked
- Alex Jones Live
