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A Connecticut jury said on Wednesday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy. The ruling marks the second multimillion-dollar verdict against Jones in just over two months. In August, another jury found that Jones and his company must pay $49.3 million to Sandy Hook parents in a similar case in Austin, Texas, where the headquarters of Jones' Infowars conspiracy theory website is located. The verdict came after three weeks of testimony in a state court in Waterbury, Connecticut; which is near the location where a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in December 2012. Jones claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away Americans' guns. During closing arguments last week, attorneys for the families of eight Sandy Hook victim

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