On Wednesday, a jury ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1bn in damages to families of victims of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, which he lied about, dismissing it as a hoax.
The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host over his relentless promotion of the lie that the 2012 massacre never happened, and that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns.
Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Jones, who founded the conspiracy-laden Infowars website and talk show, argued for years that the massacre was a “staged” government plot to take guns from Americans and that “no-one died”.
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He called the parents of victims “crisis actors” and argued that some of them never actually existed.
He now acknowledges the attack was “100% real”, a concession he made in August at a separate defamation trial in Texas.