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Conspiracy theorist who said Sandy Hook shooting was hoax ordered to pay parents $4m

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, has been ordered to pay the parents of a victim $4m (£3.3m).

Right-wing Jones, from Austin, Texas, has been successfully sued for defamation for one of his most despicable suggestions that the 2012 killings were staged.

He claimed that the Sandy Hook mass shooting was a "hoax" and that parents of the 20 child victims were "crisis actors".

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