A Connecticut jury awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to 15 plaintiffs defamed by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones when the Infowars host called the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax staged by actors following a script written by the government to build support for gun control.
With the plaintiffs sobbing in the gallery, the clerk read out the verdict in which the jury decided compensatory damages for both slander and for emotional distress.
The jury also awarded attorneys fees and costs Wednesday.
Jones, who was on the air with his radio program as the verdict was read, told his listeners, “This must be what hell is like — they just read out the damages, even though you don’t got the money.”
Bill Sherlach, whose wife, Mary, was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, warned “Alex Jones wannabes” that the trial and verdict “set a pretty high hurdle in terms of what the cost will be for them to enter into that realm of lies and deceit.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jury-reaches-verdict-alex-jones-pay-sandy-hook/story?id=91399930
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies