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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp and Graeme Massie

Alex Jones will be forced to pay more than $1bn for his Sandy Hook lies

REUTERS

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre who have suffered almost a decade of abuse and harassment because of the right-wing extremist’s lies about their murdered loved ones.

Jurors in Connecticut reached the verdict on Wednesday afternoon after deliberating for more than three days in the Infowars host’s second of three defamation trials over his targeted attacks on families torn apart by the 2012 mass shooting.

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