BREAKING: Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million in damages to eight Sandy Hook families.
The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack for the suffering he caused them by spreading lies on his platforms about the 2012 massacre, a Connecticut jury found on Wednesday.
Several family members of the victims wept as they heard the jury's decision in the courtroom. Jones, who was not in court, appeared on his online show as the jury's decision was read, laughing and mocking the amounts being awarded.For years, Jones peddled false stories on his radio and online show that one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States was “synthetic” and a “false flag,” and that the families of the victims were “crisis actors.
During closing arguments, Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the families and agent, suggested that Jones should be ordered to pay at least $550 million, saying that the host's Sandy Hook content got an estimated 550 million views from 2012 to 2018. During the four-week trial, the jury heard emotional testimony from several parents of victims about enduring harassment, death and rape threats as a result of Jones’ lies.
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