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.

The victims' families suffered a decade-long campaign of harassment and death threats by Jones' followers; In August, a Texas jury found that Jones had to pay $ ...

"This is not a case about politics," Mr Pattis said. Jones claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away Americans' guns. - Jones claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away Americans' guns

A jury says Alex Jones must pay US$965 million ($1.5 billion) in damages to families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for claiming they were ...

His lawyers have said they hope to void most of the payout in the Texas case before it is approved by a judge, calling it excessive under state law. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting is also a plaintiff in the case. In August, another jury found that he and his company must pay US$49.3 million ($79 million) to Sandy Hook parents in a similar case in Austin, Texas, where the headquarters of Jones' Infowars website is located.

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.

The popular conspiracy theorist was hit with a second massive award for damages for his lies about the US school massacre.

“They could get a $US1 billion verdict, and they wouldn’t get a dime,” Mr Jones said during one sidewalk news conference. During the trial, which took place near where the shooting occurred, victims’ families told the jury about how Mr Jones' repeated lies not only deepened their pain but also drove his followers to stalk them in person and online. Mr 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 Mr 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 Mr Jones pegged his total earnings from the sale of dietary supplements, books and survival gear at $US100 million to $US1 billion since the shooting, with $US810,000 in sales on a single day in 2020. Mr Jones has said he is all but broke after defamation lawsuits by families of the 26 murdered schoolchildren and educators drove him into bankruptcy.

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

WATERBURY, Conn. — The families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims on Wednesday won nearly $1 billion in damages from the Infowars fabulist Alex Jones, ...

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A United States court has ruled American radio host and owner of controversial website InfoWars Alex Jones must pay over $AUD1.5 billion in damages to ...

Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly US$1 billion in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims. Too little, too late.

It is a failure of our society that a malignant conman like Alex Jones was able to operate for as long as he has. Distrust of government and the “deep state” is core to modern conservatism. But in some ways Jones was an easy target: his claims were clearly false, and he had the assets to make pursuing a defamation claim worthwhile (in 2018, Infowars was

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

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 ...

2) After a voting fraud scandal, the bear nicknamed after him won Fat Bear Week. But Colbert the Bear won, and Alex Jones lost. This year, a cheating scandal rocked Fat Bear Week the same way it did

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?

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly $US1 billion in damages to families of the Sandy Hook victims, after falsely claiming the tragedy was a hoax.

They can get as much as they can from him but this will be a years-long fight," she said. Jones said on a live broadcast of his Infowars show on Tuesday as the decision was being read in court. "The money you donate does not go to these people [the plaintiffs]. "Whatever is available, you can be rest assured that we, as representatives of these families and the other families who have brought cases, will be coordinating to make sure that those assets are available for recovery to the victims of his offences," he said. Alex Jones has been ordered to pay Sandy Hook families nearly $US1 billion. "One of the things that Alex Jones tried to do throughout this case was to hide his assets, to conceal from the court, from the jury, the true extent of his profits here," said lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Chris Mattei. Mr Mattei said bankruptcy court allowed the families to "go after" Jones's assets, including any fraudulent transfer of assets, and placing scrutiny on what assets he has, what he has transferred and what is available. "The families vowed, after court, that they will pursue him and that they will collect every dollar that they have been awarded. With a sum of money so large — not to mention the additional $US49.3 million ($78.5 million) he was ordered to pay a family in the first trial, and a third trial looming — it poses the question: Will families ever receive the full compensation. Journalist and author of Sandy Hook, Elizabeth Williamson, said the decision was "financially ruinous for Alex Jones". "Do these people actually think they’re getting any of this money?” Jones said on a live broadcast on his Infowars website on Tuesday as the verdict was being read. "And it shouldn't be this hard, and it shouldn't be this scary," said Mr Parker, who became an early focus for conspiracy theorists after he spoke at a news conference the day after the shooting.

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.

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In total, Hasler has coached the Sea Eagles in 303 matches, across two stints, just short of Bob Fulton's club record of 307. The American conspiracy theorist has been ordered to pay $US965 million ($1.5billion) in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy. It's the second, multi-million-dollar verdict against Jones in just over two months, and - You might have noticed the payment system known as Osko crashed on Wednesday night, and was down for around five hours. The State Emergency Service has issued an evacuation order for the central business district and the town's south, east, west, north east and north-west to leave by 8pm - In Victoria, Emergency Management commissioner Andrew Crisp said there was essentially a "Watch and Act" warning over the whole state as it soaks under heavy rains.

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.

Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones unleashed havoc through his “demented followers,” says News Corp columnist David Penberthy.

A US court has imposed a huge fine for lies he spread about a school shooting. But he will continue to sow mayhem, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins.

There is “a clear tension between the logic of capitalist innovation and the public good”. Regulation must burrow down into the global media platforms, “to bring out the best and curtail the worst”. The freedom of speech which to John Milton was “above all liberties” is not that simple today. [Freedom of speech](https://www.theguardian.com/world/freedom-of-speech) will evoke the requisite antibodies and virtue will triumph. Likewise, an ex-president with a fantasy can lead followers towards a coup in the capital of world democracy. It is a far cry from the decorum of Speakers’ Corner. These were weaker in America, where free speech is guarded by the constitution and digital giants use it to retain market share. Increasingly frantic attempts are made to keep up with a deluge of often biased and mendacious material, but almost invariably, by the time it is taken down it re-emerges elsewhere. The main social media outlets have accepted a modicum of responsibility to monitor content. For years, the latter refused to admit responsibility for their content, Facebook asserting that it was a “platform” not a “publisher”. Of course the internet has brought myriad gains and enjoyments. Beyond that, “news” was mediated behind a wall of editors, censors and regulators, to keep it from gullible and dangerous ears.

"The money you donate does not go to these people. It goes to fight this fraud." Those were the words of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones broadcasting live ...

Pandora's box of conspiracies is wide open and it's very hard to close. Polling from the Journal of Social and Political Psychology suggests that almost 20% of Americans believe high-profile mass shootings have been staged, usually by the government. When it comes to Alex Jones himself, a former insider who worked at Infowars tells me that he thinks this could be the beginning of the end. After the comments about donations, he goes on to say: "They want us shut down". The bereaved families who were in court know all too well that what he's been doing is far from that. Never have his words sounded colder when contrasted with the emotion of grieving families.

Late-night hosts discuss the Alex Jones verdict and evidence Donald Trump has even more classified documents.

“He tormented these families,” he said. “I know what he’s doing,” he added. “Do we really need nine people in robes to tell us that this is just stuff he brought with him from home?” he added. “At least Fetterman acknowledged that he messed up the word and corrected himself,” he added. “He says things he knows aren’t true. “In fact, if you ask me, I think America needs more people in politics who actually know how to read,” he said over photos of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker. [Seth Meyers](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/seth-meyers) reacted to reports that the justice department believes Trump has still more classified documents that he has not returned to the National Archives. [asked the court to reject Trump’s appeal](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/trump-documents-mar-a-lago-reject-appeal-doj). I mean, half the characters have the same name.” “Well, by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones.” “Zuckerberg thinks you do, because his head is up an immersive experience called his butt.” “And look, this is politics, so I get it.

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.