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A jury in the US state of Connecticut has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to the family members of victims of the 2012 ...

"You want to fight. That's fine." A jury in the US state of Connecticut has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to the family members of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

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.

The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones for spreading the myth that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting ...

“That is not a business model that should be sustainable in the United States.” During the trial in Texas, he testified he couldn't afford any judgment over $2 million, and his lawyers plan to appeal and try to reduce the damages there. The lawsuit accused Mr. “I wish that after today, I can just be a daughter grieving my mother and stop worrying about the conspiracy theorists,” Ms. Jones' “hate, lies and conspiracy theories will follow both me and my family through the rest of our days”. Testifying during the trial, Mr. He told jurors the shooting deniers' vitriol made him worry for his family's safety. Parker, who became an early target of conspiracy theorists after he spoke at a news conference the day after the shooting. I mean, this is the left completely out of control.” Mr. The jury awarded him the most of any plaintiff: $120 million. The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host for spreading the myth that the deadliest school shooting in U. 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 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.

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சாண்டி ஹூக் தொடக்கப்பள்ளி துப்பாக்கிச்சூடு பாதிக்கப்பட்ட குடும்பங்களுக்கு அலெக்ஸ் ...

இந்தநிலையில் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட குடும்பங்களுக்கு அலெக்ஸ் ஜோன்ஸ் 956 மில்லியன் டாலர் (சுமார் ரூ.8 ஆயிரம் கோடி) இழப்பீடு தருமாறு நேற்று நீதிபதிகள் உத்தரவிட்டனர். முன்னதாக அந்த கொலைகாரன் தனது தாயாரையும் சுட்டுக்கொன்று விட்டான். அமெரிக்காவில் கனெக்டிகட் மாகாணத்தின் நியூடவுன் நகரில் உள்ள சாண்டி ஹூக் தொடக்கப்பள்ளியில் 2012-ம் ஆண்டு டிசம்பர் 14-ந்தேதி ஆதம் லான்சா என்ற கொலைகாரன் நடத்திய துப்பாக்கிச்சூடு சம்பவம், அந்த நாட்டையே உலுக்கியது.

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

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.

The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?

One report at the time covered social media’s inaction as [“a timeline of vacillation.”](https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/8/16/17705492/a-timeline-of-vacillation-how-twitter-came-to-suspend-alex-jones) By the time platforms acted, Jones had already built Infowars into an alternative media powerhouse, and his army of adherents was prepared to follow him to fringe social media platforms. The jury that decided Jones’ level of financial punishment certainly seems to have taken to heart the words of Christopher Mattei, a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families in Connecticut. [more than five years](https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17655658/alex-jones-facebook-youtube-conspiracy-theories) for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify to ban Jones for spreading wild conspiracy theories to his audience of millions. [attorney fees to be added](https://www.reuters.com/legal/legal-fallout-alex-jones-false-sandy-hook-claims-2022-10-12/) to that total in a month. [issued a default judgment](https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055864452/alex-jones-found-liable-for-defamation-in-sandy-hook-hoax-case) against the world’s most notorious shock jock and conspiracy theorist in November 2021. In reality, most knew Jones was liable after he floated the idea that the 2012 mass murder of 20 children, six educators, and the attacker’s mother was a “government operation” while speaking on an Infowars broadcast [in April 2013](https://www.reuters.com/legal/legal-fallout-alex-jones-false-sandy-hook-claims-2022-10-12/).

Conspiracy theorist has routinely claimed that he does not have the money to pay the large damages that he now owes.

Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, said that individuals have mailed rape threats to her home. In August, an economist estimated that Jones was worth $270m, reported the New York Times. The damages will be divided among 15 plaintiffs who sued Jones for defamation as apart of a Ain’t no money,” he said on Wednesday during his show. Jones [laughed and mocked ](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-must-pay-965-million-in-damages-to-families-of-8-sandy-hoo-rcna51200)the amounts that were awarded to the various individuals.

The far-right radio host owes nearly $1 billion in damages for fueling a wide-reaching conspiracy theory about the Sandy Hook massacre. He doesn't have that ...

There’s not really anywhere to turn for Jones unless his appeal against the verdict is successful, says Davidoff. This judgment is “something that will be there for the rest of his life,” says the attorney, who estimates that much of the $965 million judgment likely won’t be paid. Without that cash, Jones will be forced to hand over his personal assets, according to bankruptcy attorney Brian Davidoff, who notes that there are some state exemptions. Jones, for his part, claims that InfoWars is far from the financial position claimed by Pettingill. One of the two condos in South Lamar has Jones’ father, David Jones, listed as a beneficiary. It’s very unlikely that Jones, who runs the conspiracy-theory riddled website InfoWars, has a ten-figure fortune to spare.

WATERBURY, Conn. — The nearly $1 billion in damages a jury ordered Alex Jones and his Infowars company to pay for defaming the families of eight Sandy Hook ...

Jones and his legal team to submit a plan to the bankruptcy court in Houston for paying the award. He issued a series of orders aimed at strengthening independent oversight of Free Speech Systems, citing a “lack of transparency” and a “lack of candor” in some of the company’s financial arrangements and expenses, including $80,000 Mr. Jones said he needed to spend on “security” for his trip to Connecticut to testify in the damages trial. The lawsuit that resulted in Wednesday’s award targeted Mr. In a third potential scenario, the bankruptcy court could order the liquidation of Mr. Jones loses the appeal, the families will get the bond money. Jones’s assets and trying to recover as much of the original judgment as possible. — The nearly $1 billion in damages a jury ordered Alex Jones and his Infowars company to pay for defaming the families of eight Sandy Hook victims this week was an overwhelming victory in the families’ quest for accountability. Jones, who for years said that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., was a government hoax and that the families were actors in the plot. The families could be entitled to Mr. There is also the $50 million awarded to two other Sandy Hook parents in a trial this past summer, and damages yet to be assessed in an upcoming third and final trial this year. It is impossible to say where things are headed so early in what could be a yearslong process, given Mr.

The jury in Connecticut, where the massacre took place, awarded $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook victims and an FBI agent who brought the ...

"Well, that stops, that's stopping today, thanks to the courage of these families." And those who profit off of other people's trauma will pay for what they've done," she said in a statement after the verdict. "There will be more Alex Joneses in the world. Trump appeared frequently on Jones' radio show during his 2016 White House campaign and Jones was in Washington when supporters of the then-president stormed Congress in a bid to prevent certification of Democrat Joe Biden's election victory. William Aldenberg, an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook shooting and joined the families in filing the lawsuit against Jones, was awarded $90 million in damages. Jones was appearing live on his InfoWars website as the damage awards were read out in court and said he planned to appeal. "This is what a show trial is like," he said, while appealing to his listeners to visit his website and buy his products. "People like The six-person jury awarded damages for defamation, slander and emotional distress to a total of 15 plaintiffs ranging from a low of $28 million to a high of $120 million to Robbie Parker, whose six-year-old daughter Emilie died at Sandy Hook. A Texas jury ordered Jones last month to pay nearly $50 million in damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse was killed by the 20-year-old gunman behind the Sandy Hook shooting. The jury in Connecticut, where the massacre took place, awarded $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook victims and an FBI agent who brought the defamation case against Jones. Sandy Hook families maintained that his lies and denialism, coupled with his ability to influence the beliefs of thousands of followers, caused real emotional trauma.

Alex Jones was ordered to pay Sandy Hook families nearly $1 billion for calling the shooting a hoax.Attorney Ron Austin said Jones will have a hard time ...

[nearly $50 million](https://www.insider.com/depp-heard-damages-reduced-alex-jones-sandy-hook-may-not-2022-10). For years, Jones pushed a lie that the 2012 shooting was staged by the government as a pretext for restricting gun rights. essentially you start seizing everything he owns." "The conscience of the community spoke loudly and indicated that that behavior will not be tolerated and it sent a message to those who seek to profit on lies and deceit and it's not going to be tolerated," Austin added. [Alex Jones](https://www.businessinsider.com/alex-jones-billion-dollar-judgement-2022-10) laughed on air at the [nearly $1 billion](https://www.insider.com/alex-jones-ordered-pay-965-million-to-sandy-hook-families-2022-10) in damages a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay to [Sandy Hook families](https://www.insider.com/alex-jones-verdict-sandy-hook-victims-families-broke-down-tears-2022-10), joking that the plaintiffs won't see that money. - Alex Jones was ordered to pay Sandy Hook families nearly $1 billion for calling the shooting a hoax.

After 26 people were killed by a gunman at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Jones made a false conspiracy theory a ...

The Sandy Hook families have alleged in bankruptcy court filings that after they brought their defamation cases Jones began “diverting assets” out of Free Speech Systems, totaling in 2021 and 2022 to more than $60 million. The judgments against Jones personally can still be collected, he said, but their scale might force him to file for individual bankruptcy. He promoted a theory that the shooting was a hoax, staged by actors, and that no children died — all in an effort to increase gun control. Jones has repeatedly said he doesn’t even have $2 million to his name. Jones called it a record sales day. Trials were held in Texas and Connecticut to determine how much he owed the families for lying about them. "So whatever they do in here is a Pyrrhic victory.” During his testimony, Jones was confronted with a memo from one of his business managers outlining a single day’s gross revenue of $800,000 from selling vitamin supplements and other products through his website. On his show Thursday, Jones continued to assail his critics and said “we have two years of appeals.” While Jones in recent years has acknowledged the shooting happened, he claims the families are being used to push a gun control and anti-free speech agenda. Jones faces a third trial in Texas, in a lawsuit filed by the parents of another child killed in the shooting. After 26 people were killed by a gunman at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Jones made a false conspiracy theory a centerpiece of his programing on his flagship Infowars show. Experts say the Sandy Hook families likely face a long fight ahead as they try to collect the $965 million awarded to them by a jury in Connecticut Wednesday and a separate $49 million judgment from a Texas jury in August.

"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.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has vowed to fight a nearly $1 billion defamation verdict against him, but experts say neither bankruptcy nor an ...

Syracuse University College of Law professor Roy Gutterman said that Jones' "contempt for the system" will likely undermine any appeal. Jones has said he will fight the verdict on appeal and use the recent bankruptcy of his company, Free Speech Systems LLC, to avoid paying. Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy in July. “No bankruptcy judge would allow Alex Jones and his dad to stand in line in front of the plaintiffs,” Myers said. The Sandy Hook families have intervened in the case and accused Jones of withdrawing up to $62 million from Free Speech Systems while burdening it with $54 million in "concocted" debt owed to a different company owned by Jones and his parents. “We’re confident we will recover as much of the verdict as we can in the near-term, and in the long-term, this verdict isn’t going anywhere,” Chris Mattei, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said.