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Court Reduces $50 Million Judgment Against Alex Jones Over False Sandy Hook Hoax Claim
Court Reduces $50 Million Judgment Against Alex Jones Over False Sandy Hook Hoax Claim
Authored via Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,
A Texas appeals court on Aug. 21 drastically reduced a judgment owed by Infowars host Alex Jones, shrinking the amount from $50 million to around $6 million, over his commentary falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut a hoax.
Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems LLC, appealed the multimillion-dollar settlement after a jury in 2022 found him liable for “defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress”...
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