Alex Jones, a denier of one of the largest massacres in the United States, was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars for claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
After three days of deliberation, a jury in the US state of Connecticut determined the payment of $965 million (about $994 million) to the relatives of eight victims and to an FBI agent who had filed a defamation charge.
Founder of the InfoWars website and host of a popular radio show, Jones has been found liable in several libel lawsuits filed by the parents of victims of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, which killed 20 children and six teachers.
Jones, 48, for years claimed on her show that the school shooting was “a montage” of gun control advocates and that the victims’ parents were actors, but later acknowledged that the case was “100% real”.
A Texas jury last month ordered Jones to pay nearly $50 million to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son was murdered by the 20-year-old gunman responsible for the school shooting.
InfoWars filed for bankruptcy in April, as did another Jones company, Free Speech Systems, recently.
Infowars was founded in 1999 and has since advocated theories such as that of 9/11, 2001 (the attack on the Twin Towers in New York that killed about 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000) was organized by the US government. So is the claim that the Sandy Hook massacre (in which a gunman killed 20 children and eight adults) was forged by the far-left.
Source: DN
