Infowars founder Alex Jones ordered to pay almost $1 billion to relatives of victims of 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for spreading the lie that the massacre was staged, a stunning verdict that one lawyer said “probably one of the loudest defamation sentences in US history”.
The compensatory damages awarded on Wednesday by a Connecticut jury were the largest to date. in several lawsuits filed by families of victims in in attack it killed 20 children as well as six teachers in Newtown, Connecticut.
