Jones was ordered Friday to pay an additional $45.2M to parents of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. In total he will pay $49.3M in damages.
, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.
Earlier this week, Jones testified that any award over $2 million would “sink us.” His company Free Speech Systems, which is Infowars' parent company, filed for bankruptcy protection during the first week of the trial. “You have the ability to stop this man from ever doing it again,” Wesley Ball, an attorney for the parents, told the jury. “Send the message to those who desire to do the same: Speech is free. Lies, you pay for."
“That number represents, in my opinion, a value of a net worth,” Pettingill said. “He’s got money put in a bank account somewhere.” “You’ve already sent a message. A message for the first time to a talk show host, to all talk show hosts, that their standard of care has to change," Reynal said.
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