The jury awarded the cash award to the families of five children and three educators killed in the attack.
Must pay:Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content DeskWATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut jury on Wednesday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 was a hoax.
Eight families were awarded the money in the verdict, the largest cash award so far in a legal battle to hold the Infowars founder accountable for circulating falsehoods about the mass shooting, where 20 children and six school staff members were killed in Newtown, Connecticut,It is the second big judgment against Jones, who said that the mass shooting never happened and that the grieving families seen in media coverage were actors hired as a part of a scheme to take away people’s guns,...
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