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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Syraat Al Mustaqeem

Who is Alex Jones? Why does Infowars host have to pay $965m to Sandy Hook families?

Alex Jones spent years claiming the Sandy Hook school mass shooting in 2012 was a hoax

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Alex Jones has been ordered to pay at least $965m in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook mass school shooting for claiming they were actors and the tragedy did not happen.

A jury in a state court in Connecticut gave its verdict on Wednesday after a three-week trial. Relatives of the children who were killed said they had suffered years of threats and harassment because of Jones’s lies.

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