Quick Glance: Alex Jones's $1.5bn Debt Settlement Offered by Sandy Hook Families
- Sandy Hook families win $1.5bn lawsuit against Alex Jones.
- Mr Jones admits to repeated false claims about the deaths, leading to harassment of the victims' families.
- Despite bankruptcy, Mr Jones will not be released from paying the settlement, as ruled by a judge last month.
- The new offer would require Mr Jones to pay the families half of any income he earned over $9m (£7m) per year, as revealed in court filings last week.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Spends Over $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook Families Still Awaiting Compensation.
- Jones spent $7,900 on housekeeping in July.
- Lawyers for the families plan to request measures to restrict Jones' spending and protect the family's assets if he does not reduce his personal expenses.
- According to Jones' financial documents, his net worth is approximately $14 million.
- Some Sandy Hook families have filed another lawsuit alleging that Jones concealed millions of dollars to safeguard his wealth.
Quick Glance: Elon Musk Brings Back Conspiracy Theorist to Twitter
- Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter led to changes on the platform.
- After a vote, Elon Musk brought back Infowars operator Alex Jones to Twitter/X.
- Elon Musk emphasized freedom of speech on the platform and surprisingly brought back Jones.
- Elon Musk reaffirmed freedom of speech as the platform's highest priority since taking over Twitter a year ago.
Quick Glance: Court Upholds $75K Fine for Alex Jones
- A Connecticut appeals court upheld a $75,000 fine against right-wing personality Alex Jones for missing a deposition in March of last year.
- The court agreed with the trial court's ruling that Jones' decision to host a live radio broadcast significantly undermined his claim of being too ill to attend the deposition.
- The Connecticut Appellate Court stated that Jones still did a live broadcast of his show Infowars despite claiming to be ill and receiving doctor's recommendations to avoid the deposition in a lawsuit by families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.
- Jones' lawyer mentioned the possibility of appealing the appellate court's ruling to the Supreme Court.
Quick Glance: Judge: Jones can't use bankruptcy to avoid paying Sandy Hook families
- Judge rules: Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy to evade over $1.1 billion payment to Sandy Hook families
- Another defeat for Jones after spreading false information about the Sandy Hook massacre
- Jones' fortune is approximately $14 million, but he cannot use bankruptcy to avoid payments
- Families welcome court ruling: Jones' malicious behavior is not protected in bankruptcy court
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Sandy Hook damages could follow him the rest of his life
- "Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?
- " Jones stated.
- Lawyers told Insider that the damages were astounding for a slander case, with Barhoma calling the payout a "jaw-dropping" number.
- "Compensatory damages are looking to make a plaintiff whole," Barhoma said, adding that while Jones will almost certainly appeal the verdict, an appellate court will be less inclined to interfere with compensatory damages awarded by a jury.
- Furthermore, unlike punitive penalties, compensatory damages are not capped in Connecticut, according to some lawyers.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to the Sandy Hook family.
- These punitive damages are in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages he must pay to the mother and father of a 6-year-old boy slain in the 2012 shooting.
- Late Friday, jurors issued a decision against Alex Jones, ordering him to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of."
- The verdict concluded off a terrible trial for the conspiracy theorist, which included his own lawyers handing a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victim's family two years' worth of Jones' damaging text conversations.
Quick Glance: Affair Rumors Surrounding Prince William and Kate Middleton
- Kate and William's friends were baffled by the absence of the wedding ring in a photoshopped picture, raising concerns about their marriage.
- Stephen Colbert's comments on alleged affairs involving Prince William spark controversy.
- Rumors of an affair between William and Rose Hanbury resurface.
- Speculations on Kate and William's marriage, especially after a mysterious photo without a wedding ring, add strain to the royal couple.
Quick Glance: Will Alex Jones give $1 billion to Sandy Hook families? What you need to know about the massive reward.
- Infowars founder Alex Jones was sentenced to pay almost $1 billion to family of Sandy Hook mass shooting victims for spreading the idea that the tragedy was staged — a startling judgement described by one lawyer as "probably one of the largest defamation verdicts in U.S. history."
- The compensatory damages granted by a Connecticut jury on Wednesday were the most so far in various lawsuits filed by families of victims in the Newtown, Conn., attack that killed 20 children and six instructors.
- Families and allies of the victims said the verdict proves "the truth matters."
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Has Been Ordered to Pay $473 Million More for Sandy Hook Claims
- The Connecticut court adds to the $965 million in damages owed by the Infowars host to families and an FBI agent he defamed in the aftermath of the 2012 killing.
- Alex Jones, an internet broadcaster, was ordered in October to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook school shooting victims and one F.B.I. officer.
- It concluded a weeks-long trial to decide how much Mr. Jones should pay for saying the 2012 tragedy, in which a shooter killed 20 children and six adults, was a government conspiracy.
Quick Glance: "Your attorneys messed up": Alex Jones confronted in Sandy Hook defamation trial with texts from his phone
- #AlexJones' attorney, Mark Bankston, told him that his attorney made a mistake and handed him Jones' entire cell phone history.
- Jones' attorney, Andino Reynal, argued during closing arguments that the plaintiffs failed to prove that Jones' acts and words caused actual harm, and that the trial lacked evidence of the harassment, pain, and reputation defamation that the parents claimed.
- "A COWARDLY DISPLAY": Alex Jones fails to testify during his Sandy Hook deposition.
- HOW MUCH WILL ALEX JONES PAY? : The trial has begun after a court determined that he defamed the Sandy Hook parents.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones, the owner of Free Speech Systems, declares bankruptcy.
- Alex Jones has previously declared bankruptcy.
- Jones was found liable in Sandy Hook families' lawsuits last year after falsely claiming that the 2012 school shooting was a fake.
- The Sandy Hook families had criticized Jones' last bankruptcy filing in April as a "sinister" attempt to shelter his assets from liability.
- In explaining the current bankruptcy petition, Schwartz stated that the Sandy Hook litigation caused InfoWars to be avoided by major internet, social media, and financial organizations.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' ex-wife will seek phone records after her lawyer'messed up'
- A lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents told Alex Jones on Wednesday that his counsel "messed up" and disclosed two years of phone data.
- Kelly Jones, Alex Jones' ex-wife, wants access to a treasure trove of information – several years of phone records — thanks to a blunder by Alex Jones' attorneys.
- Kelly Jones told Insider that, like the January 6 committee, she is ready to subpoena phone records because she feels they would help her in her current child custody dispute with Alex Jones.
- "Another stunning and unbelievable attorney gaffe by Alex Jones' attorneys," said Kelly Jones on Wednesday.
Quick Glance: The parent company of the bankrupt Infowars will face a second Sandy Hook defamation trial.
- The Connecticut trial will decide how much FSS and its creator, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, should pay in a defamation complaint brought by family relatives of the shooting victims.
- On July 29, when the Texas defamation trial was well underway, Free Speech Systems filed for Chapter 11.
- The corporation first claimed that coming to trial in Connecticut would imperil its capacity to reorganize, but it consented to participate after a Connecticut judge ruled that the trial against Jones, who is not bankrupt, could proceed.
- During the Texas trial, Jones admitted that the shooting was "100% real."
The plaintiffs, immediate family members of children and educators killed in at Sandy Hook as well as one first responder ... Show more https://abcn.ws/3CGTqZf
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' Lies Blow Up in His Face During Extensive Sandy Hook Trial
- If there is justice in the world, **Alex Jones,** the prominent conspiracy theorist on trial for the abominable, despicable [falsehoods he spread](https://www.vanityfair.com/index.php/Alex-Jones/), should be convicted.
- Further justice would be for him to be fully ostracized by society and for a witch to take away his voice so that no one ever has to hear from him again. Total justice would be for him to be completely despised by society and for a witch to take away his voice so that no one ever has to hear from him again.
- When questioned by Jones, the parents' lawyer, **Mark Bankston**, [argued](https://www.npr.
- Jones earlier stated that he "couldn't find any" (https://jezebel.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones testifies in court about his Sandy Hook fake liesf
- Alex Jones testifies in a trial about how much he must pay in damages for calling the Sandy Hook school massacre a fabrication.
- "This is not really a trial," he explained.
- He said that the hoax lies were irresponsible and that the incident was "100% real."
- Jones said that the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy was staged by actors as part of gun control efforts.
Quick Glance: Only appropriate online regulation can put a halt to dangerous conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones.
- I acknowledge that I should have included political maniacs among the millions of other benefits.
- However, the culpable individuals who were left off the hook by the Jones jury were the agents of his deception, the money diggers of social media.
- Jones, like QAnon, Donald Trump, and others, can reach millions by navigating fake news sites and social media.
- It did exactly what it said on the tin.
- Francine Wheeler, whose son Ben was killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, speaks to the media on October 12 in Waterbury, Connecticut, after a jury awarded the victims' families $965 million in damages in a second defamation trial against Alex Jones.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones must pay for Sandy Hook deceptions, according to parents' lawyer as defamation trial begins
- "Mr. Jones was continually churning out this idea that Sandy Hook was fake," Bankston told jurors.
- Jones and Infowars, he claimed, were behind the "most despicable and vile campaign of defamation and slander in American history."
- During the Alex Jones jury trial in Austin, a video of a Sandy Hook shooting victim is shown on the screen.
- The defamation suit, filed in Texas, where Infowars is situated, is one of several filed by victims' families who allege they were harassed and suffered emotional distress after Jones claimed the shooting was staged.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' $49.3 million verdict and the Future of Misinformation
- Alex Jones is facing a large fine for his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre – $49.3 million in damages, and counting — for claiming the nation's bloodiest school shooting was a fabrication — a severe volley in a burgeoning fight on harmful misinformation.
- "Alex Jones was attacking individuals," said Stephen D. Solomon, a law professor at New York University and the founding editor of First Amendment Watch.
- "You do want to chill that speech," Solomon suggested.
- "These kinds of damages and verdicts do have a chilling effect," said Volokh.
BREAKING: Jury awards hundreds of millions to Sandy Hook parents from Alex Jones. https://abcn.ws/3RXHx5h
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Attorneys representing the parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims accused InfoWars host Alex Jones of perjury at his defamation damages ... Show more http://on.forbes.com/6183zNNkW
US Conspiracy theorist #AlexJones has filed for bankruptcy
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