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The sale of Infowars is part of Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, which he filed in late 2022 after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in defamation lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Jones repeatedly called the shooting that killed 20 children and six educators a hoax staged by ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 ...
The sale of Infowars is part of Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, which he filed in late 2022 after he was ordered to pay the $1.5 billion. Jones was sued for repeatedly saying on his show that the 2012 massacre of 20 first graders and six educators was staged by crisis actors to spur more gun control.
A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook ...
The families of Sandy Hook shooting victims offered Infowars host Alex Jones a path out of bankruptcy if he pays them a “small fraction” of the more than $1 billion he owes in damages ...
On August 4, 2022, Jones was ordered to pay $4.1M compensatory damages to Sandy Hook parents and, on August 5, 2022, he was ordered to pay a further $45.2M in punitive damages. [215] [216] [217] On October 12, 2022, Jones was ordered to pay $965 million in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims. [218] [219]
Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right [10] radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. [a] [24] He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which is the longest-running online news and politics talk show, and was previously broadcast [25] by the Genesis Communications Network across the United States via syndicated and internet radio. [26]
Alex Jones, [81] publisher of InfoWars, a climate change denialist who has said that the World Bank invented the "hoax" of climate change, [82] falsely claims that vaccines cause autism [83] [84] and who encouraged his listeners to harass the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, which he called a "hoax".