Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for spreading the lie that the massacre was staged, a stunning verdict that a attorney called “probably one of the largest libel verdicts in American history.” .”
The compensatory damages awarded by a Connecticut jury on Wednesday were the largest yet in several lawsuits filed by families of victims in the attack that killed 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.