Alex Jones was ordered $4.1 million to compensate the Sandy Hook family for their repeated claims that the 2012 massacre had been a hoax. Announcement Thursday.
After Jones and Free Speech Systems, his media company, were found guilty of defamation and emotional distress to Sandy Hook families, the Texas jury decided the amount.
Infowars founder, who offered to pay $120,000 per plaintiff in settlement, was previously rejected by the families. They sought $150 million in damages and a jury decision. Jones will be hearing two additional damages claims.
Plaintiffs Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of slain 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, Jones’ claims made their lives a “living hell.” Jones admittedHe now believes that the shooting was a mistake. “100% real.”
Jones’ testimony got especially interesting when the Sandy Hook families’ lawyer told the conspiracy theorist that his legal team had sent a digital copy of Jones’ phone, complete with all the text messages and emails he had sent over the past two years, to the prosecution’s team, presumably in error.
“That is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn’t have text messages about Sandy Hook,” the families’ attorney Wednesday.
According to Rolling Stone, the contents of Jones’ phone interested the Jan. 6 Committee as they plan to subpoena Jones’ text messages and emails to aid their investigation of the Capitol riot. Jones was previously subpoenaed by the committee on Nov. 21. They are now investigating Jones’ media support for Jan. 6riot and his relationship to Stewart Rhodes (Oath Keepers militia leader), who is an alleged conspirator.
Jones wasFind itliable for damages after families from 10 children killed in the school shooting filed four lawsuits against the host and his media company Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, in Nov. 2021. The families highlight Jones’ role in the harassment and death threats they faced after he spread conspiracy theories that denied the shooting’s existance.