Alex Jones ordered to pay $965m dollars for Sandy Hook lies

A Texas jury in August awarded nearly 50 million dollars to the parents of another murdered child

Infowars founder Alex Jones (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/AP)

The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay 965 million dollars to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a jury in the US decided on Wednesday.

The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host over his relentless promotion of the lie that the 2012 massacre never happened, and that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns.