Marjorie Taylor Greene defended Alex Jones after a judge ordered him to pay $1 billion to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, claiming that “free speech is dead.”
. However, if a person’s speech leads to someone being harmed, they can be prosecuted for their words, in both criminal and civil cases.
In the civil case against Jones, brought forward by parents of children who were killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, jurors agreed with the notion thatJones’s followers bought into his false claims that the Sandy Hook shooting never happened, and that parents and their children were paid “crisis actors” who had faked the event in order to draw support for gun reform.
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