Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy, less than two months after a jury ordered him and his InfoWars parent company to pay nearly $1 billion to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
. He called it an"inside job" and a"government operation." He claimed that the 20 children and six adults killed there had not actually died and that first responders and grieving relatives were crisis actors.
A group of Sandy Hook families filed suit in 2018, saying that they had endured stalking, harassment and death threats as a result of Jones's lies. Another family sued in Texas later that year.
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