Alex Jones ordered to pay upwards of $1 BILLION to families of Sandy Hook victims in defamation trial
Infowars founder and conspiracy peddler Alex Jones was ordered Wednesday to pay upwards of $965 million in fines determined by a jury in his defamation trial over his false claims regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
The six-member jury began deliberations in Connecticut court last week to decide how much Jones should pay for spreading false information to his millions of viewers about the 2012 massacre that resulted in 26 fatalities. Attorneys for plaintiffs, which include eight families of deceased shooting victims and an FBI agent, told jurors that Jones had lied about the events of the shooting since the day it happened and used the internet to help disseminate false information about that day.
"The lies that started on December 14, 2012, are continuing to this very day," plaintiffs' attorney Christopher Mattei said on Oct. 6. "In two months it will be 10 years, 10 years since these families lost their loved ones and even now, even now, he's still doing it."
