Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, has been forced to pay $965 million in damages for making false claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 was a fabrication.
In a defamation trial in Connecticut, the families of eight victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack have requested at least $550 million, according to a BBC story.
They claimed that the right-wing radio host’s false statements caused a decade of stalking and threats of death.
Sandy Hook Elementary School saw the deaths of twenty children and six adults.
For years, Alex Jones, the creator of the conspiracy-filled Infowars website and talk show, insisted that the shooting was a “staged” government operation to take away Americans’ firearms and that “no-one died.”
He claimed that some of the victims’ parents were “crisis actors” and that some victims never existed.
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