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Alex Jones will be paying hundreds of millions of dollars.
The 48-year-old conspiracy theorist and alt-right radio show host and Infowars’ parent company Free Speech Systems was ordered to pay the families of eight Sandy Hook victims and an F.B.I. agent who responded to the scene of the 2012 shooting nearly $1 billion in damages, via the New York Times.
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Alex was found liable for defamation, spending years claiming that the shooting was a hoax and accusing the families as being paid actors who were complicit in the plot. The families were threatened online and in person for years, and he used his platform to continue to perpetuate the lie.
The jury’s decision is expected to divide the money among 15 plaintiffs: 14 relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, and William Aldenberg, an F.B.I. agent targeted by conspiracy theorists, via the news outlet.
He has a third Sandy Hook damages trial pending stemming from a defamation suit he lost to Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of Noah Pozner. An earlier trial brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of Jesse Lewis, ended with him being ordered to pay $4 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages.
The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut killed 20 first graders and six educators.
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ordered him to pay $965 million to the families of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre in compensation for years of harassment, slander, lies and threats Jones lobbed against them. Jones claims he’s bankrupt and can’t pay it, but whatever the case, it’s great news for the people he tormented and terrorized.
M.I.A. has garnered backlash for a tweet she sent comparing alt-right figure Alex Jones’s falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” COVID-19 vaccines and suggesting the latter, too, should “pay for lying”.In a tweet shared today (October 13), the rapper and singer referenced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.
Alex Jones was not in a Connecticut courtroom today as a nearly $1 billion judgement was read against him in the defamation case brought by families of children murdered in the Sandy Hook School Shooting, whom he has repeatedly and erroneously accused of being so-called crisis actors. But Jones did find the time to do a simulcast mocking the judgement — and by extension the families — as it was read.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Right-wing conspiracy figure Alex Jones’ company has already filed for bankruptcy protection, and it’s not clear how much of the staggering $965 million verdict reached Tuesday he’ll actually wind up paying to the 15 plaintiffs in the defamation case about his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Jones plans to appeal the massive monetary damages that a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay, which comes after a judgment against him in August awarding $49.3 million to the family of a Sandy Hook victim in a separate case in Texas. But legal experts say Jones, founder of Infowars — which has been banned by all major internet services — is almost certainly ruined financially.
ordered the nearly $1 billion verdict. The decision marks the second multimillion penalty faced by Jones after a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages to the family of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis in August.