Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday, a little less than two months after a jury ordered him to pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
The action, which many expected, is an attempt by Jones to avoid paying the penalties that have been piling up in the wake of his relentless promotion of a lie that the 2012 school shooting never happened and families interviewed on the news were paid actors. (As the verdict was read, Jones mocked the jury on air, vowing to appeal.)
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