WATERBURY: Jurors ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ relatives and an FBI agent, who said he turned their loss and trauma into years of torment by promoting the lie that the rampage was a hoax.
The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host for spreading the myth that the deadliest school shooting in US history never happened, and that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns. The verdict came in a defamation lawsuit filed by some families who were killed in 2012 shooting, plus an FBI agent. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.
The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host for spreading the myth that the deadliest school shooting in US history never happened, and that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns. The verdict came in a defamation lawsuit filed by some families who were killed in 2012 shooting, plus an FBI agent. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.
