Alex Jones

The conspiracy theorist is ordered to pay damages after branding the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Jones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. "The money does not go to these people," he said. Jones has disputed that figure. Jones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. Some described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. Jones, for his part, slammed the proceedings as a "show trial" run by a "tyrant" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.

Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show on a positive note, as Alex Jones owes almost $1 billion to the Sandy Hook families. Also, Bear 747 aka Colbert won Fat ...

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Stephen Colbert was grateful that “by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones” on Wednesday.

Well, by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones.” — STEPHEN COLBERT So he’s socially liberal, fiscally conservative, complete a-hole.” — STEPHEN COLBERT Pro life!” — JIMMY KIMMEL Because I’m not so sure Herschel knows how bread is made.” — JIMMY KIMMEL “That’s a lot of money! Because, you know how as humans, we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people?

The evidence is clear, as Wednesday's jury decision shows. Big publications must start calling Jones what he is.

[Post](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages.html), Jones remains “a reckless purveyor of conspiracy theories”. Even yesterday, the Post and the NYT did not include “liar” in news stories detailing the extraordinary damages awarded by the jury. Nor was a “fabulist” responsible for insisting the parents of those murdered elementary schoolchildren were “actors”. Jones was also identified as a “fabulist” in the subheading attached to the story. “On a couple of occasions, we have used ‘lie’ to describe something President Trump said.” He lied when he said on his Infowars program that the parents of all the dead children were “crisis actors”. He lied when he said the carnage “looked like a drill”. Since “using ‘lie’ repeatedly could feed the mistaken notion that we’re taking political sides. This is not a new phenomenon. The German Brothers Grimm and the celebrated Honduran short-story teller Augusto Monterroso are among a litany of literary icons of this fantastical genre. Trump is addicted to lying. The word has a hint of child-like innocence about it, too.

Wednesday's verdict, which followed a four-week trial pitting the combative internet host and conspiracy theorist against the victims' families, brings the ...

But on Infowars shows that aired during the trial, he defiantly walked back those statements, saying he now views both Sandy Hook and the defamation trial he called a sham as “synthetic.” Pattis, Jones’s lawyer, suggested to jurors that the families were exaggerating their suffering to advance a political plot to confiscate guns, the central theme of Jones’s Sandy Hook conspiracy theory. “They could get a US$1 billion verdict, and they wouldn’t get a dime,” Jones said during one sidewalk press conference. Jones claimed the judge’s restrictions on what he could tell the jurors put him in an “untenable position” that violated his free speech rights. He said Jones had carried out a 10-year assault “that made him very rich and exploited the fears and resentments of his audience.” Testimony from an employee of Jones pegged his total earnings from the sale of dietary supplements, books and survival gear at US$100 million to US$1 billion since the shooting, with US$810,000 in sales on a single day in 2020.

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 — A US jury ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday to pay nearly US$1 billion (RM4.68 billion) in damages for ...

“Well, that stops, that’s stopping today, thanks to the courage of these families.” “It shows that the internet is not the wild, wild west and that your actions have consequences,” said Bill Sherlach, whose wife, Mary, died at Sandy Hook. The 48-year-old Jones claimed for years on his show that the Sandy Hook shooting was “staged” by gun control activists and that the parents were “crisis actors,” but has since acknowledged it was “100 per cent real.”

Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., ...

But an economist testified in the Texas proceeding that Jones and his company were worth as much as $270 million. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. Experts testified that Jones’ audience swelled when he made Sandy Hook a topic on the show, as did his revenue from product sales. Jones wasn’t there, but live video from the court played on a split screen on his Infowars show. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.

Far-right talk show host Alex Jones should pay eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder $965 million in ...

InfoWars founder hit with second massive damages award for lying about tragedy at Connecticut elementary school.

Infowars host punished over promotion of lie 2012 massacre never happened. Plus, 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970.

Three things worked in the past and would work again: political pressure and moral suasion; regulation; and tax relief for creditors who write debt off,” said Matthew Martin of campaign group Debt Relief International. He adds that the UK will accelerate the creation of onshore and offshore windfarms. “Two-thirds of low and middle-income countries now have bond yields above 10% and can no longer borrow from the private sector,” Tim Jones of the campaign group Debt Justice said. A federal lawsuit filed alleges that the police searches, which police describe as consensual, rely on coercion and are administered based on race. André, creator and host of The Eric Andre Show, and English, a standup comedian and actor, say that in separate incidents, officers racially profiled and illegally stopped them to question if they had illegal drugs. “Programmes such as Contracts for Difference mean that renewables now meet about 40% of our needs, reducing our reliance on authoritarian regimes such as Russia and strengthening our domestic energy sector.” A separate study of nearly 3,800 people who probably have long Covid found that the probability of having at least one symptom after 35 weeks was greater than 90%. The researchers stress the increased difficulty animals are having moving as they are blocked by infrastructure and farmland. Latin America and the Caribbean – including the Amazon – has experienced the most precipitous decline in average wildlife population size, with a 94% drop in 48 years. However, the Pentagon believes the Chinese force will grow to more than 1,000 warheads by 2030. He has vowed to fight the decision and put out a fresh call for donations yesterday. The daughter of the killed Sandy Hook principal testified that she was mailed rape threats to her home.

Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay a massive sum for false claims that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax.

[said the verdict shows “the truth matters.”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5) Jones’s supporters cast it as an attack on freedom of speech. [ordered to pay nearly $1 billion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for spreading the lie that the massacre was staged — a stunning verdict [that one lawyer called](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6LU1rm8LCg&t=523s) “probably one of the largest defamation verdicts in U.S. The compensatory damages awarded Wednesday by a Connecticut jury were the largest so far in several lawsuits filed by families of victims in the attack that killed 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Conn.

legal experts say Infowars founder Alex Jones is almost certainly ruined financially after he was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion over his lies about the ...

In 2018, [YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and Apple Podcasts banned Jones](https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/youtube-alex-jones-ban-1202896074/) from their platforms, citing violations of their hate-speech policies. “In more than 200 trials in the course of my career I have never seen a trial like this.” He falsely accused the parents of the Sandy Hook victims of colluding with the government in an imagined plot to curtail Americans’ gun rights. estimated Jones has a net worth of between $135 million and $270 million. In the same case, economist Bernard Pettingill Jr. Litman currently is an associate with whistleblower law firm Constantine Cannon in San Francisco.

The conspiracy theorist has said the elementary school massacre was a hoax. Plus, domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer looks at President Joe Biden's ' ...

So at the end of this, there'll be a report that is issued and that final report is expected sometime this fall. Thanks to PJ Elliot for his great work on the show and I'm back tomorrow with more of 5 Things from USA TODAY. So there's a lot that the committee has been up to and that final report should include a lot of information and be rather illuminating, I imagine. He may be able to appeal the default and he has the option of bankruptcy. Jones now faces a third trial in Texas around the end of the year. Is the DOJ waiting for the hearing to end to file charges or will nothing come from this? And had he not done that, had he participated in the process, he may be able to defend or put up a good fight. I shouldn't have to worry about what my daughter's going to go through when I tell them that it's best that they just tell the truth. - And a chihuahua has regained the title of the world's oldest living dog. But relatives of five children and three educators killed in the shooting, along with an FBI agent among the first responders to the scene, filed this latest lawsuit. This latest suit accuses Jones and his Infowars website's parent company, Free Speech Systems, of using the mass killing to build his audience and make millions of dollars. I'm Taylor Wilson and this is 5 Things you need to know Thursday, the 13th of October, 2022.

The evidence is clear, as Wednesday's jury decision shows. Big publications must start calling Jones what he is.

The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?

One report at the time covered social media’s inaction as [“a timeline of vacillation.”](https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/8/16/17705492/a-timeline-of-vacillation-how-twitter-came-to-suspend-alex-jones) By the time platforms acted, Jones had already built Infowars into an alternative media powerhouse, and his army of adherents was prepared to follow him to fringe social media platforms. The jury that decided Jones’ level of financial punishment certainly seems to have taken to heart the words of Christopher Mattei, a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families in Connecticut. [more than five years](https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17655658/alex-jones-facebook-youtube-conspiracy-theories) for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify to ban Jones for spreading wild conspiracy theories to his audience of millions. [attorney fees to be added](https://www.reuters.com/legal/legal-fallout-alex-jones-false-sandy-hook-claims-2022-10-12/) to that total in a month. [issued a default judgment](https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055864452/alex-jones-found-liable-for-defamation-in-sandy-hook-hoax-case) against the world’s most notorious shock jock and conspiracy theorist in November 2021. In reality, most knew Jones was liable after he floated the idea that the 2012 mass murder of 20 children, six educators, and the attacker’s mother was a “government operation” while speaking on an Infowars broadcast [in April 2013](https://www.reuters.com/legal/legal-fallout-alex-jones-false-sandy-hook-claims-2022-10-12/).

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury Wednesday to pay nearly 1 billion dollars to the relatives of eight Sandy Hook ...

This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. We are going to enforce this verdict as long as it takes. But I know that this is not the end of Alex Jones in my life. He hasn't disclosed how much money he has. He'd already been found liable by the time the trial started, so it was held to determine how much he owed the families in damages. He was nearly silent for years. FRANKIE GRAZIANO, BYLINE: Jurors heard many times during the trial a clip of Alex Jones claiming the tragedy was a government-sponsored hoax. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) She was killed that day. As Connecticut Public Radio's Frankie Graziano reports, it's the price for a decade of lies. He said it the same day 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook. That's a decision a Connecticut jury reached Wednesday after three weeks of testimony.

Conspiracy theorist has routinely claimed that he does not have the money to pay the large damages that he now owes.

Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, said that individuals have mailed rape threats to her home. In August, an economist estimated that Jones was worth $270m, reported the New York Times. The damages will be divided among 15 plaintiffs who sued Jones for defamation as apart of a Ain’t no money,” he said on Wednesday during his show. Jones [laughed and mocked ](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-must-pay-965-million-in-damages-to-families-of-8-sandy-hoo-rcna51200)the amounts that were awarded to the various individuals.

The far-right radio host owes nearly $1 billion in damages for fueling a wide-reaching conspiracy theory about the Sandy Hook massacre. He doesn't have that ...

There’s not really anywhere to turn for Jones unless his appeal against the verdict is successful, says Davidoff. This judgment is “something that will be there for the rest of his life,” says the attorney, who estimates that much of the $965 million judgment likely won’t be paid. Without that cash, Jones will be forced to hand over his personal assets, according to bankruptcy attorney Brian Davidoff, who notes that there are some state exemptions. Jones, for his part, claims that InfoWars is far from the financial position claimed by Pettingill. One of the two condos in South Lamar has Jones’ father, David Jones, listed as a beneficiary. It’s very unlikely that Jones, who runs the conspiracy-theory riddled website InfoWars, has a ten-figure fortune to spare.