The verdict is the second big judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones over his relentless promotion of the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre never happened and that the grieving families were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns.
should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a jury in Connecticut decided Wednesday.
It came in a lawsuit filed by the relatives of five children and three educators killed in the mass shooting, plus an FBI agent who was among the first responders to the scene. A Texas jury inThe Connecticut trial featured tearful testimony from parents and siblings of the victims, who told about how they were threatened and harassed for years by people who believed the lies told onStrangers showed up at their homes to record them. People hurled abusive comments on social media.
The lawsuit accused Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, of using the mass killing to build his audience and make millions of dollars. Experts testified that Jones’ audience swelled when he made Sandy Hook a topic on the show, as did his revenue from product sales. Because he was already found liable, Jones was barred from mentioning free speech rights and other topics during his testimony.
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