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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jim Vertuno

What to know about Alex Jones' Texas court win and more than $1 billion in damages he still faces

Newtown Shooting Infowars - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families.

For the bombastic Infowars founder, the ruling that saves him more than $40 million was still a legal victory amid multiple punishing financial judgments that forced him and his company, Free Speech Systems, to file for bankruptcy.

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