Alex Jones

A jury in Connecticut awarded damages to the families of eight victims killed in the 2012 shooting and an F.B.I. agent who responded to the scene.

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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay at least $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for ...

The trial was marked by weeks of anguished testimony from the families, who filled the gallery each day and took turns recounting how Mr Jones’s lies about Sandy Hook compounded their grief. Mr Jones claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away Americans' guns. Mr Jones’s lawyer countered during his closing arguments that the plaintiffs had shown scant evidence of quantifiable losses.

It came in a claim filed by the relatives of five children and three teachers killed in the mass shooting, plus an FBI agent who was among the first emergency ...

But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. But an economist gave evidence in the Texas proceeding that Jones and his company were worth as much as 270 million dollars. The shooting was real, he said. Jones now faces a third trial, in Texas, at the end of the year, in a claim filed by the parents of another child killed in the shooting. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay 965 million dollars to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a jury in the US decided on Wednesday.

For years, Jones spread conspiracy theories that the elementary school shooting was a hoax.

Jones has acknowledged the shooting was real after facing lawsuits over the claims, at one point arguing a “form of psychosis” caused him to perpetuate the conspiracy theories. [said](https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial-decision/index.html) his family has faced violent threats since Jones accused him of being an actor on his show. The massacre—which killed 20 first graders and 6 school staff members—marked one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. The verdict came after three weeks of testimony, and nearly a year after a Connecticut judge Jones claimed the verdict was aimed at “scar[ing] During the Connecticut trial on Wednesday, Parker

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

Jones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. "The money does not go to these people," he said. Jones has disputed that figure. Jones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. Some described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. Jones, for his part, slammed the proceedings as a "show trial" run by a "tyrant" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay almost a billion dollars for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax. Jones has ...

Some moved away to avoid the abuse. - shows wild claims about COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Earlier this year a jury in Texas ordered Jones to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy who was killed at Sandy Hook. So far, courts in Texas and Connecticut have found Jones liable for defamation for his portrayal of the Sandy Hook shooting as a hoax. Jones has admitted calling Sandy Hook parents "crisis actors" on his show and saying the shooting was "phoney as a three-dollar bill". The Sandy Hook massacre is one of the most deadly school shootings in US history.

InfoWars founder hit with second massive damages award for lying about tragedy at Connecticut elementary school.

Jones pushed the lie that the 2012 massacre never happened, and that the grieving families were actors.

But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. The shooting was real, he said. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. He called the proceedings a “kangaroo court,” mocked the judge, called the plaintiffs’ lawyer an ambulance-chaser and called the case an affront to free speech rights. More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.

WATERBURY, Conn. — The families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims on Wednesday won nearly $1 billion in damages from the Infowars fabulist Alex Jones, ...

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The verdict is the second big judgment against him over his promotion of the lie that the massacre never happened, and that grieving families were actors ...

During the trial in Texas, he testified he couldn’t afford any judgment over $2 million. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. It is unclear how much of the verdicts Jones can afford to pay. Experts testified that Jones’ audience swelled when he made Sandy Hook a topic on the show, as did his revenue from product sales. But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. [the shooting](https://apnews.com/article/violence-ee24f46a30d2426089b83bb2897dce4e) on Dec.

The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $965m (€994m) to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a ...

But an economist gave evidence in the Texas proceeding that Mr Jones and his company were worth as much as $270m. Mr Jones now faces a third trial, in Texas, at the end of the year, in a claim filed by the parents of another child killed in the shooting. The case accused Mr Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, of using the mass killing to build his audience and make millions of dollars. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. Mr Jones called the proceedings a “kangaroo court”, mocked the judge, called the plaintiffs’ lawyer an ambulance-chaser and called the case an affront to free speech rights. But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant.

During closing arguments in a defamation case, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Jones had used lies about the school shooting to drive traffic to Infowars ...

It is unclear how much he can afford to pay. That case was held in Austin, Texas, where Infowars is based. Those giving tearful testimony in a state court included the families of five pupils and three teachers who were killed. "This is not a case about politics," Mr Pattis said. Some of them hugged after the verdict was delivered. During closing arguments in a defamation case, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Jones had used lies about the school shooting to drive traffic to Infowars and boost sales of various products it offered.

Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show on a positive note, as Alex Jones owes almost $1 billion to the Sandy Hook families. Also, Bear 747 aka Colbert won Fat ...

2) After a voting fraud scandal, the bear nicknamed after him won Fat Bear Week. But Colbert the Bear won, and Alex Jones lost. This year, a cheating scandal rocked Fat Bear Week the same way it did

Stephen Colbert was grateful that “by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones” on Wednesday.

Well, by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones.” — STEPHEN COLBERT So he’s socially liberal, fiscally conservative, complete a-hole.” — STEPHEN COLBERT Pro life!” — JIMMY KIMMEL Because I’m not so sure Herschel knows how bread is made.” — JIMMY KIMMEL “That’s a lot of money! Because, you know how as humans, we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people?

The evidence is clear, as Wednesday's jury decision shows. Big publications must start calling Jones what he is.

A US jury has determined right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay at least $965 million in damages to families of victims of the Sandy Hook ...

A US jury has determined right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay at least $965 million in damages to families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. Alex Jones has to pay Sandy Hook families $965 million 2.1 million people in Chad are acutely hungry and a hospital in the capital says it's seeing increasing numbers of children hospitalized with malnutrition.

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 ...

Jones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. "The money does not go to these people," he said. Jones has disputed that figure. Jones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. Some described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. Jones, for his part, slammed the proceedings as a "show trial" run by a "tyrant" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.

The evidence is clear, as Wednesday's jury decision shows. Big publications must start calling Jones what he is.

[Post](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages.html), Jones remains “a reckless purveyor of conspiracy theories”. Even yesterday, the Post and the NYT did not include “liar” in news stories detailing the extraordinary damages awarded by the jury. Nor was a “fabulist” responsible for insisting the parents of those murdered elementary schoolchildren were “actors”. Jones was also identified as a “fabulist” in the subheading attached to the story. “On a couple of occasions, we have used ‘lie’ to describe something President Trump said.” He lied when he said on his Infowars program that the parents of all the dead children were “crisis actors”. He lied when he said the carnage “looked like a drill”. Since “using ‘lie’ repeatedly could feed the mistaken notion that we’re taking political sides. This is not a new phenomenon. The German Brothers Grimm and the celebrated Honduran short-story teller Augusto Monterroso are among a litany of literary icons of this fantastical genre. Trump is addicted to lying. The word has a hint of child-like innocence about it, too.

Infowars host punished over promotion of lie 2012 massacre never happened. Plus, 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970.

Three things worked in the past and would work again: political pressure and moral suasion; regulation; and tax relief for creditors who write debt off,” said Matthew Martin of campaign group Debt Relief International. He adds that the UK will accelerate the creation of onshore and offshore windfarms. “Two-thirds of low and middle-income countries now have bond yields above 10% and can no longer borrow from the private sector,” Tim Jones of the campaign group Debt Justice said. A federal lawsuit filed alleges that the police searches, which police describe as consensual, rely on coercion and are administered based on race. André, creator and host of The Eric Andre Show, and English, a standup comedian and actor, say that in separate incidents, officers racially profiled and illegally stopped them to question if they had illegal drugs. “Programmes such as Contracts for Difference mean that renewables now meet about 40% of our needs, reducing our reliance on authoritarian regimes such as Russia and strengthening our domestic energy sector.” A separate study of nearly 3,800 people who probably have long Covid found that the probability of having at least one symptom after 35 weeks was greater than 90%. The researchers stress the increased difficulty animals are having moving as they are blocked by infrastructure and farmland. Latin America and the Caribbean – including the Amazon – has experienced the most precipitous decline in average wildlife population size, with a 94% drop in 48 years. However, the Pentagon believes the Chinese force will grow to more than 1,000 warheads by 2030. He has vowed to fight the decision and put out a fresh call for donations yesterday. The daughter of the killed Sandy Hook principal testified that she was mailed rape threats to her home.

"The money you donate does not go to these people. It goes to fight this fraud." Those were the words of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones broadcasting live ...

Pandora's box of conspiracies is wide open and it's very hard to close. Polling from the Journal of Social and Political Psychology suggests that almost 20% of Americans believe high-profile mass shootings have been staged, usually by the government. When it comes to Alex Jones himself, a former insider who worked at Infowars tells me that he thinks this could be the beginning of the end. After the comments about donations, he goes on to say: "They want us shut down". The bereaved families who were in court know all too well that what he's been doing is far from that. Never have his words sounded colder when contrasted with the emotion of grieving families.

Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay a massive sum for false claims that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax.

[said the verdict shows “the truth matters.”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5) Jones’s supporters cast it as an attack on freedom of speech. [ordered to pay nearly $1 billion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for spreading the lie that the massacre was staged — a stunning verdict [that one lawyer called](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6LU1rm8LCg&t=523s) “probably one of the largest defamation verdicts in U.S. The compensatory damages awarded Wednesday by a Connecticut jury were the largest so far in several lawsuits filed by families of victims in the attack that killed 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Conn.

A jury made the $965m award to eight families and an FBI agent assigned to the case following a three-week defamation trial. Lawyers told of how Mr Jones, 48, ...

One man said that people had urinated on the grave of his seven-year-old son, Daniel, and had threatened to dig up his coffin. Lawyers told of how Mr Jones, 48, pushed lies on his InfoWars site. The children he killed were six and seven years old.