“Do these people actually think they’re getting any of this money?” As a judge on Wednesday (12 October) ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims, the Infowars host held a livestream where he mocked the verdict and also begged listeners to help him foot the […]

3 years ago

“What I did to those families was wrong. But I didn’t do it on purpose.” Alex Jones, host of controversial far-right American news service Infowars, has been ordered to pay $4.1 million in damages over repeated conspiracy claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. It had been argued that Jones, 48, had […]

3 years ago

The Sandy Hook school shooting claimed 26 lives in 2012. Alex Jones’ Infowars has filed for bankruptcy amid numerous defamation lawsuits related to the infamous Sandy Hook shooting. Alex Jones, 48, had falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a “giant hoax” and had been designed by the US government and mass media […]

4 years ago

A major victory for the families of the victims. Alex Jones, host of controversial far-right American news service Infowars, has been found guilty by default in a number of lawsuits brought against him by the parents of eight people killed in the mass shooting incident that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut […]

4 years ago

The conspiracy theorist claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre never happened. The father of a boy who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre has been awarded $450,000 by a jury in Wisconsin, America. Leonard Pozner, whose six-year-old son Noah was killed during the shooting, sued a conspiracy theorist who claimed the shooting never […]

7 years ago