[4] He was previously a tenured professor of communication[5] at Florida Atlantic University[6] at Boca Raton.
[7] He maintains that the Boston Marathon bombing was a false flag operation perpetrated by the United States government,[7] and that the Sandy Hook massacre did not occur[5][8] but was a hoax also perpetrated by the United States government.
[5][6][9][14] As a result, Florida Atlantic University initiated a procedure to dismiss Tracy, who had tenure, in December 2015.
[19] He was dismissed in January 2016, although a statement from his former employer asserted that Tracy was fired for repeatedly neglecting or refusing to file standard paperwork disclosing activities or employment outside his job that might pose conflicts of interest.
[22] In November 2020, Tracy lost the appeal,[23] with the Tampa Bay Times reporting, "The opinion said Tracy argued that 'no reasonable juror could have found that his blog speech did not motivate the university to fire him,' but it concluded that he 'cherry-picks' the evidence and that he was fired for insubordination related to not filing reports about his outside activities.