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| Infowars host Alex Jones ordered to pay $473m more to Sandy Hook families | Infowars host Alex Jones ordered to pay $473m more to Sandy Hook families |
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| Conspiracy theorist must pay punitive damages on top of nearly $1bn jury verdict for falsely claiming 2012 shooting was hoax | Conspiracy theorist must pay punitive damages on top of nearly $1bn jury verdict for falsely claiming 2012 shooting was hoax |
| The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473m in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1bn verdict handed down last month for his defamatory claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting, a Connecticut judge ruled on Thursday. | |
| The ruling comes a month after a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, found Jones must pay more than a dozen relatives of Sandy Hook victims $965m in compensatory damages for falsely claiming they were actors who staged the shooting as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns. | |
| The plaintiffs had asked a judge to impose additional punitive damages, citing what they said was the “historic” scale of Jones’ wrongdoing and his “utter lack of repentance”. Jones has since acknowledged the shooting took place but refused to apologize to the families during his trial testimony. | |
| In a statement, the plaintiffs’ attorney Chris Mattei said the ruling “serves to reinforce the message of this case: those who profit from lies targeting the innocent will face justice”. | |
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