Alex Jones to pay $100,000 in Sandy Hook case, judge rules.
An attorney for Jones did not immediately comment Tuesday.
Jones operates Infowars in Texas. He is fighting similar lawsuits in Connecticut brought by other families of Sandy Hook victims for promoting a theory that the shooting was a hoax. A 20-year-old gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself at the school, after having killed his mother at their Newtown home.
The families said they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since acknowledged that the Sandy Hook killings occurred. His attorneys have defended his speech in court as"rhetorical hyperbole" and deny it was defamation.
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