Alex Jones Liable for Nearly $1 Billion in Sandy Hook Defamation Case
Far-right conspiracy monger Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of nearly $1 billion to families of several victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.The award came Wednesday in one of three defamation suits filed by Sandy Hook families after Jones claimed the mass shooting was a hoax.
He later acknowledged that the massacre was real, but that was after the suits were filed and the families had endured threats and harassment.
Jones also has a record of speaking out against LGBTQ+ rights and spreading various outrageous and untrue conspiracy theories.
He was an early and ardent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions as well.In the shooting at the school in Newtown, Conn., 20 children and six educators were killed.
