Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Families Nearly $1 Billion in Second Defamation Trial

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A Connecticut jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to eight families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The jury ordered Jones to pay $229 million to the first three plaintiffs alone.

The decision marks yet another court victory for the families of Sandy Hook victims tormented for years by conspiracy theories about the massacre in which a gunman killed 2o children and eight others. Jones, the founder of Infowars, led the charge on those conspiracy theories, repeatedly claiming the massacre was a “staged” government hoax and that the children killed were “actors.”

Those conspiracy theories led to harassment and threats against the surviving families of Sandy Hook victims, which they testified about emotionally in court.

The decision comes after Jones was ordered by a Texas jury to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of Jesse Lewis, a six-year-old boy murdered in the shooting.

Jones is facing three lawsuits from Sandy Hook families. There remains one more in Austin, Texas.

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