Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims’ familieson October 12, 2022 at 8:23 pm

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The conspiracy theorist is ordered to pay damages after branding the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut.

They alleged the right-wing radio host’s misinformation led to a decade’s worth of harassment and death threats.

Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Jones, who founded the conspiracy-laden Infowars website and talk show, argued for years that the massacre was a “staged” government plot to take guns from Americans and that “no one died”.

He now acknowledges the attack was “100% real”, a concession he made in August at a separate defamation trial in Texas.

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