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Alex Jones offers Sandy Hook victims' families $55 million to settle legal claims
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Quick Glance: Court Upholds $75K Fine for Alex Jones
  • A Connecticut appeals court upheld a $75,000 fine against right-wing personality Alex Jones for missing a deposition in March of last year.

  • The court agreed with the trial court's ruling that Jones' decision to host a live radio broadcast significantly undermined his claim of being too ill to attend the deposition.

  • The Connecticut Appellate Court stated that Jones still did a live broadcast of his show Infowars despite claiming to be ill and receiving doctor's recommendations to avoid the deposition in a lawsuit by families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.

  • Jones' lawyer mentioned the possibility of appealing the appellate court's ruling to the Supreme Court.
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Quick Glance: Alex Jones's $1.5bn Debt Settlement Offered by Sandy Hook Families
  • Sandy Hook families win $1.5bn lawsuit against Alex Jones.

  • Mr Jones admits to repeated false claims about the deaths, leading to harassment of the victims' families.

  • Despite bankruptcy, Mr Jones will not be released from paying the settlement, as ruled by a judge last month.

  • The new offer would require Mr Jones to pay the families half of any income he earned over $9m (£7m) per year, as revealed in court filings last week.
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Elon Musk and Alex Jones: A Curious Alliance: Elon Musk and Alex Jones weren't natural allies until the Twitter owner drifted far enough into the ...
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Elon Musk and Alex Jones: A Curious Alliance
Quick Glance: Elon Musk Brings Back Conspiracy Theorist to Twitter
  • Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter led to changes on the platform.

  • After a vote, Elon Musk brought back Infowars operator Alex Jones to Twitter/X.

  • Elon Musk emphasized freedom of speech on the platform and surprisingly brought back Jones.

  • Elon Musk reaffirmed freedom of speech as the platform's highest priority since taking over Twitter a year ago.
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook families: The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host over his relentless promotion of ...
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook families
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Sandy Hook damages could follow him the rest of his life
  • "Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?

  • " Jones stated.

  • Lawyers told Insider that the damages were astounding for a slander case, with Barhoma calling the payout a "jaw-dropping" number.

  • "Compensatory damages are looking to make a plaintiff whole," Barhoma said, adding that while Jones will almost certainly appeal the verdict, an appellate court will be less inclined to interfere with compensatory damages awarded by a jury.

  • Furthermore, unlike punitive penalties, compensatory damages are not capped in Connecticut, according to some lawyers.
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Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy: The Infowars broadcaster has been ordered by courts to pay about $1.5 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families hurt by his ...
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Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $473M more to Sandy Hook families: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company have been ordered to pay an extra $473 million to ...
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $473M more to Sandy Hook families
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Has Been Ordered to Pay $473 Million More for Sandy Hook Claims
  • The Connecticut court adds to the $965 million in damages owed by the Infowars host to families and an FBI agent he defamed in the aftermath of the 2012 killing.

  • Alex Jones, an internet broadcaster, was ordered in October to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook school shooting victims and one F.B.I. officer.

  • It concluded a weeks-long trial to decide how much Mr. Jones should pay for saying the 2012 tragedy, in which a shooter killed 20 children and six adults, was a government conspiracy.
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What's next for Alex Jones? More defamation trials, more damages and, possibly, criminal charges
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What's next for Alex Jones? More defamation trials, more damages and ...
Quick Glance: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to the Sandy Hook family.
  • These punitive damages are in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages he must pay to the mother and father of a 6-year-old boy slain in the 2012 shooting.

  • Late Friday, jurors issued a decision against Alex Jones, ordering him to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

  • "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of."

  • The verdict concluded off a terrible trial for the conspiracy theorist, which included his own lawyers handing a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victim's family two years' worth of Jones' damaging text conversations.
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Alex Jones Hit With $45 Million Ruling In Damages For Sandy Hook Lies: For years, Jones has used his platform on Infowars to spread horrific lies that the 2012 ...
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Alex Jones Hit With $45 Million Ruling In Damages For Sandy Hook Lies
Quick Glance: "Your attorneys messed up": Alex Jones confronted in Sandy Hook defamation trial with texts from his phone
  • #AlexJones' attorney, Mark Bankston, told him that his attorney made a mistake and handed him Jones' entire cell phone history.

  • Jones' attorney, Andino Reynal, argued during closing arguments that the plaintiffs failed to prove that Jones' acts and words caused actual harm, and that the trial lacked evidence of the harassment, pain, and reputation defamation that the parents claimed.

  • "A COWARDLY DISPLAY": Alex Jones fails to testify during his Sandy Hook deposition.

  • HOW MUCH WILL ALEX JONES PAY? : The trial has begun after a court determined that he defamed the Sandy Hook parents.
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Sandy Hook Mom Nicole Hockley Vows to Milk Alex Jones Dry After $1 Billion Defamation Verdict in Connecticut
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Sandy Hook Mom Nicole Hockley Vows to Milk Alex Jones Dry After $1 Billion ...
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Alex Jones' Sandy Hook conspiracy trial moves to punitive damages phase: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having more penalties ...
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Alex Jones' Sandy Hook conspiracy trial moves to punitive damages ...
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Judge rules Alex Jones must pay full $50M in damages to Sandy Hook family: A Texas judge on Tuesday denied Infowars host Alex Jones a bid to decrease the amount ...
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Judge rules Alex Jones must pay full $50M in damages to Sandy Hook family
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Jury to decide on damages in trial against Alex Jones over Sandy Hook lies: A lawyer representing family members of the victims of Sandy Hook said Thursday that ...
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Jury to decide on damages in trial against Alex Jones over Sandy Hook lies
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Infowars Traffic Spiked As Alex Jones Told Sandy Hook Lies, Trial Reveals: A Connecticut jury will decide how much money Jones will have to pay to several ...
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Infowars Traffic Spiked As Alex Jones Told Sandy Hook Lies, Trial Reveals
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Opinion | Alex Jones Picked on the Wrong People: This week’s news should have been no surprise to Mr. Jones.
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Opinion | Alex Jones Picked on the Wrong People
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Sandy Hook families seek steep punitive damages after $1 bln Alex Jones verdict: Families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting on Friday asked a ...
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Sandy Hook families seek steep punitive damages after $1 bln Alex Jones ...
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The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect: The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?
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The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect
Quick Glance: Will Alex Jones give $1 billion to Sandy Hook families? What you need to know about the massive reward.
  • Infowars founder Alex Jones was sentenced to pay almost $1 billion to family of Sandy Hook mass shooting victims for spreading the idea that the tragedy was staged — a startling judgement described by one lawyer as "probably one of the largest defamation verdicts in U.S. history."

  • The compensatory damages granted by a Connecticut jury on Wednesday were the most so far in various lawsuits filed by families of victims in the Newtown, Conn., attack that killed 20 children and six instructors.

  • Families and allies of the victims said the verdict proves "the truth matters."
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Sandy Hook Attorney: Families Will 'Make Alex Jones Pay Every Last Dollar': “We are going to chase Alex Jones to the end of the earth,” said attorney Joshua ...
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Sandy Hook Attorney: Families Will 'Make Alex Jones Pay Every Last Dollar'
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Alex Jones' 2nd defamation trial over Sandy Hook massacre to move forward: A jury decided Jones must pay a victim's family $49 million in damages.
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Alex Jones' 2nd defamation trial over Sandy Hook massacre to move forward
Quick Glance: The parent company of the bankrupt Infowars will face a second Sandy Hook defamation trial.
  • The Connecticut trial will decide how much FSS and its creator, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, should pay in a defamation complaint brought by family relatives of the shooting victims.

  • On July 29, when the Texas defamation trial was well underway, Free Speech Systems filed for Chapter 11.

  • The corporation first claimed that coming to trial in Connecticut would imperil its capacity to reorganize, but it consented to participate after a Connecticut judge ruled that the trial against Jones, who is not bankrupt, could proceed.

  • During the Texas trial, Jones admitted that the shooting was "100% real."
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Alex Jones faces 2nd trial over Sandy Hook hoax claims: Alex is Jones is "liable under Connecticut law," the judge said.
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Alex Jones faces 2nd trial over Sandy Hook hoax claims
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Alex Jones Trial Live Updates: Sandy Hook Parent Testifies: Robbie Parker, who was a focus of years of attacks by Mr. Jones, is testifying about the consequences ...
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Alex Jones Trial Live Updates: Sandy Hook Parent Testifies
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Alex Jones and His Lawyer Lost a Defamation Case. Their Legal Troubles Are Just Beginning.
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Alex Jones and His Lawyer Lost a Defamation Case. Their Legal Troubles Are ...
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' Lies Blow Up in His Face During Extensive Sandy Hook Trial
  • If there is justice in the world, **Alex Jones,** the prominent conspiracy theorist on trial for the abominable, despicable [falsehoods he spread](https://www.vanityfair.com/index.php/Alex-Jones/), should be convicted.

  • Further justice would be for him to be fully ostracized by society and for a witch to take away his voice so that no one ever has to hear from him again. Total justice would be for him to be completely despised by society and for a witch to take away his voice so that no one ever has to hear from him again.

  • When questioned by Jones, the parents' lawyer, **Mark Bankston**, [argued](https://www.npr.

  • Jones earlier stated that he "couldn't find any" (https://jezebel.
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Jan. 6 Committee Gets 2 Years Of Alex Jones’ Text Messages: The messages were first revealed during a trial last week after Jones was told one of his lawyers ...
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Jan. 6 Committee Gets 2 Years Of Alex Jones’ Text Messages
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' $49.3 million verdict and the Future of Misinformation
  • Alex Jones is facing a large fine for his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre – $49.3 million in damages, and counting — for claiming the nation's bloodiest school shooting was a fabrication — a severe volley in a burgeoning fight on harmful misinformation.

  • "Alex Jones was attacking individuals," said Stephen D. Solomon, a law professor at New York University and the founding editor of First Amendment Watch.

  • "You do want to chill that speech," Solomon suggested.

  • "These kinds of damages and verdicts do have a chilling effect," said Volokh.
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Alex Jones Sandy Hook Damages Trial: Live Updates: After a heated day of testimony on Thursday, the lawyer for the conspiracy theorist and Infowars host says he ...
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Alex Jones Sandy Hook Damages Trial: Live Updates
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Alex Jones finally faces consequences. Hateful lies have to come with a cost.: A jury shows Alex Jones the price for being a monster, for leveraging the pain of ...
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Alex Jones finally faces consequences. Hateful lies have to come with a ...
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' ex-wife will seek phone records after her lawyer'messed up'
  • A lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents told Alex Jones on Wednesday that his counsel "messed up" and disclosed two years of phone data.

  • Kelly Jones, Alex Jones' ex-wife, wants access to a treasure trove of information – several years of phone records — thanks to a blunder by Alex Jones' attorneys.

  • Kelly Jones told Insider that, like the January 6 committee, she is ready to subpoena phone records because she feels they would help her in her current child custody dispute with Alex Jones.

  • "Another stunning and unbelievable attorney gaffe by Alex Jones' attorneys," said Kelly Jones on Wednesday.
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Gazette-Mail editorial: Defanging poisonous, reckless rhetoric: Attorney Mark Bankston said in a recent interview that the question he gets the most is ...
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Gazette-Mail editorial: Defanging poisonous, reckless rhetoric
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Alex Jones defiant over $965m damages to Sandy Hook families: ‘Ain’t no money’: Conspiracy theorist has routinely claimed that he does not have the money to pay ...
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Alex Jones defiant over $965m damages to Sandy Hook families: ‘Ain’t no ...
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Why Jane Fonda Is Being Compared to Alex Jones After Nashville Shooting: Radio-show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay more than $1 ...
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Why Jane Fonda Is Being Compared to Alex Jones After Nashville Shooting
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Alex Jones requests new trial, says last one led to "miscarriage of justice"
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Alex Jones requests new trial, says last one led to "miscarriage of ...
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Watch Stephen Colbert Gloat About Alex Jones’ Owing Almost $1 Billion: Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show on a positive note, as Alex Jones owes almost $1 ...
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Watch Stephen Colbert Gloat About Alex Jones’ Owing Almost $1 Billion
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Testimony to start in civil lawsuit against Alex Jones, who falsely said Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax
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Testimony to start in civil lawsuit against Alex Jones, who falsely said ...
Quick Glance: Alex Jones must pay for Sandy Hook deceptions, according to parents' lawyer as defamation trial begins
  • "Mr. Jones was continually churning out this idea that Sandy Hook was fake," Bankston told jurors.

  • Jones and Infowars, he claimed, were behind the "most despicable and vile campaign of defamation and slander in American history."

  • During the Alex Jones jury trial in Austin, a video of a Sandy Hook shooting victim is shown on the screen.

  • The defamation suit, filed in Texas, where Infowars is situated, is one of several filed by victims' families who allege they were harassed and suffered emotional distress after Jones claimed the shooting was staged.
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Alex Jones Gloats About Bankruptcy Plot To Tie Up Sandy Hook Damages 'For Years': He bashes "kangaroo court" on his podcast, aims to stiff Sandy Hook families ...
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Alex Jones Gloats About Bankruptcy Plot To Tie Up Sandy Hook Damages 'For ...
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"My mom was killed at Sandy Hook, Alex Jones' harassment was sickening"

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Why the Alex Jones Verdict Felt So Unsatisfactory: Even defamation trials largely leave fake news untouchable.
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Why the Alex Jones Verdict Felt So Unsatisfactory
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seeks new trial after nearly $1bn Sandy Hook verdict
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seeks new trial after nearly $1bn Sandy ...
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TV host ordered to pay $71m over ‘lies’: Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a grand total of US$49.3m (AUD$71.4m) in damages for spreading lies ...
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TV host ordered to pay $71m over ‘lies’
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LZ Granderson: Alex Jones is no kind of 'theorist': People like Jones and Trump are scamming, not theorizing.
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LZ Granderson: Alex Jones is no kind of 'theorist'
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Opinion | Alex Jones and the Wellness-Conspiracy Industrial Complex: The Sandy Hook defamation trial showed how bogus health products have turned misinformation ...
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Opinion | Alex Jones and the Wellness-Conspiracy Industrial Complex
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Mother of Sandy Hook victim says she felt compassion for ‘lonely’ Alex Jones when she faced him in court
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Mother of Sandy Hook victim says she felt compassion for ‘lonely’ Alex ...
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One family’s epic fight against Sandy Hook conspiracies, Alex Jones, and those who deny their son ever lived
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One family’s epic fight against Sandy Hook conspiracies, Alex Jones ...
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US Conspiracy theorist #AlexJones has filed for bankruptcy

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Georgia Guidestones' Destruction Leaves Conspiracy Theorists Divided: The moment, known as "America's Stonehenge," has been an obsession with conspiracy ...
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Georgia Guidestones' Destruction Leaves Conspiracy Theorists Divided
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Alex Jones Questions Texas School Shooting: 'Very Opportunistic': Alex Jones said Joe Biden was politicizing the Robb Elementary School shooting and suggested ...
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Alex Jones Questions Texas School Shooting: 'Very Opportunistic'
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Infowars bankruptcy tossed in deal with Sandy Hook parents: A federal judge in Texas on Friday dismissed the bankruptcy protection case of Infowars and two other ...
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Infowars bankruptcy tossed in deal with Sandy Hook parents
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US hoax trials spotlight misinformation profiteer: Defamation cases in Texas and Connecticut against Jones have spotlighted the challenge of curbing ...
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US hoax trials spotlight misinformation profiteer
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies: Jones now believes the shooting was real, but he says he had a right to publicly question whether it ...
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies
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U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' defamation trial continues to determine how much he must pay parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass ... Show more