Alex Jones is facing a hefty price tag for his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre - $49.3 million in damages, and counting, for claiming the nation's deadliest school shooting was a .
U.S. courts have long held that defamatory statements falsehoods damaging the reputation of a person or a business aren’t protected as free speech, but lies about other subjects, like science, history or the government, are.
Andino Reynal, lawyer for Alex Jones, listens to a video prior to the jury viewing it during a trial at the Travis County Courthouse, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022, in Austin,
A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.