‘Infowars’ Host Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Damages To 8 Sandy Hook Victims’ Families In Defamation Suits
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deadline.comA Connecticut judge today ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre, which is the deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S.
history. That day, the shooter killed 26 people, including 20 kids under eight years old. Jones has repeatedly asserted the fiction that all those involved were actors as part of a federal plot to confiscate Americans’ guns.
The victims’ families sued Jones for defamation.Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled today that Jones was liable by default because the Infowars host has for years refused to turn over web records and documents that would prove whether or not he profited from promulgating conspiracy theories among his fans.
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