Alex Jones sentenced to pay $1 billion for denying Sandy Hook school massacre

Far-right American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion in compensation to the families of the victims of a 2012 school massacre he had denied was real.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
12 October 2022 Wednesday 16:31
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Alex Jones sentenced to pay $1 billion for denying Sandy Hook school massacre

Far-right American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion in compensation to the families of the victims of a 2012 school massacre he had denied was real.

Alex Jones repeatedly mocked the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, as a setup to confiscate weapons from Americans. That falsehood caused a lot of damage to the parents of the 20 children who died, in addition to the six educators who lost their lives, they were actors. A jury in that state decided on Wednesday that he should pay the affected families and an FBI agent $965 million in damages for defamation and moral damages.

The owner of the Infowars site had already received - a few months ago - another sentence to pay about 45 million dollars, in Texas, to a couple whose six-year-old son died in Sandy Hook.

The conspiracy theorist publicly admitted to the murder. But he refused to cooperate with the courts, so judges in both states convicted him of contempt.

Alex Jones has a third trial pending, in this case for a lawsuit filed by the parents of Noah Pozner, another of the minors who died on December 14, 2012.