NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) - Families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts in his bankruptcy, saying that the conspiracy theorist's frequent posts to fans are a key part of the Infowars business being liquidated to pay Jones' debts.
A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Monday that families of Sandy Hook school mass shooting victims can move forward against Alex Jones regarding the nearly $1.5 billion he’s ordered to pay them over conspiracy theories he helped spread about the event, the Associated Press reports.
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.
