Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m in defamation damages
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Far-right conspiracy theorist and provocateur Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1m in defamation charges to the parents of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, a jury decided on Thursday.
The parents, Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, sought up to $150m in damages from Jones after he, for years, continued to spread the theory that the mass shooting was a hoax on his program InfoWars.
The $4.1m is in compensatory damages; the jury is still deciding on how much Jones must pay in punitive damages.
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