Closing arguments held in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook trial

Infowars host Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Connecticut Superior Court during his Sandy Hook defamation damages trial in Waterbury, Conn., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022 (Christian Abraham/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP/PA)

A lawyer for families of eight people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre told a jury on Thursday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones started lying about the shooting the day it happened and provided the machinery that allowed that lie to spread.

Jones’ attorney countered by telling the jury his client did not “invent the Internet” and argued jurors should not award excessive damages just because they are angry about the harassment the families went through at the hands of others who also believed the lie that the shooting was a hoax.