Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims' families

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to wage $965m (£869m) successful damages aft falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook schoolhouse shooting was a hoax.

The families of 8 victims, and an FBI cause who responded to the attack, had sought astatine slightest $550m successful the defamation proceedings successful Connecticut.

They alleged the right-wing vigor host's misinformation led to a decade's worthy of harassment and decease threats.

Twenty children and six adults were killed astatine Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Jones, who founded the conspiracy-laden Infowars website and speech show, argued for years that the massacre was a "staged" authorities crippled to instrumentality guns from Americans and that "no 1 died".

He present acknowledges the onslaught was "100% real", a concession helium made successful August astatine a abstracted defamation proceedings successful Texas.

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