The trial is the first time Jones has been held financially liable for peddling lies about the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut in which 19 children and six educators were killed.
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.
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