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The filing comes just two months after a jury ordered him to pay $965 million to the families of those killed at Sandy Hook, a massacre that Alex Jones lied about for years on his InfoWars broadcasts.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.
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The unanimous verdict of $965 million was released Wednesday afternoon.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay millions in damages for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. But even if the penalties shut down Infowars, his influence will remain.
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Lawyers for the parents asked the jury to end Jones’ “gold rush of fear and misinformation.” He’ll owe a total of nearly $50 million to the parents.
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The amount is much smaller than the $150 million that the parents sought in their defamation lawsuit against the conspiracy theorist.
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A Connecticut court's default judgment brought swift reaction from plaintiffs, high-profile politicians and those representing Jones.
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The suit stemmed from a promotional poster put out by conspiracy website Infowars featuring an image of the Pepe character, as well that of Jones and President Trump.
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Alex Jones' Infowars site accused the companies of censorship. Apple said, "We believe in representing a wide range of views, so long as people are respectful to those with differing opinions."
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Parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing radio show host Alex Jones for defamation.The conspiracy theorist…