Alex Jones' Bills Keep Piling Up: Jury Awards Nearly $1 Billion in Sandy Hook Defamation Case

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The latest ruling comes two months after a Texas jury ruled against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to the tune of nearly $50 million in compensatory and punitive damages

Sean P. Anderson from Dallas, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. But if you believe him, it’s all “made up,” as he said on his far-right InfoWars broadcast Wednesday.

As Jones ramped up the claims against parents, whom he'd accused of participating in the supposed plot, the families were harassed and regularly received threats. “Every single one of these families [was] drowning in grief, and Alex Jones put his foot right on top of them,” Chris Mattei, one of those attorneys, argued at the time.Wednesday, Jones said the verdict was part of a plot to intimidate him into not “questioning Uvalde,” the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in May, and similar attacks.

 

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