shooting was a hoax, a jury in Connecticut decided 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.It came in a lawsuit filed by the relatives of five children and three educators killed in the mass shooting, plus an FBI agent who was among the first responders to the scene.
A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.FILE - Alex Jones during a 'Stop the Steal,' Far-Right Rallies leaders, broadcaster rally at the Governor's Mansion in Georgia Nov.
19th, 2020, as the state finishes the recount in the Presidential election - calling on Governor Kemp to help Presiden (Zach Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)The Connecticut trial featured tearful testimony from parents and siblings of the victims, who told about how they were threatened and harassed for years by people who believed the lies told on Jones’ show.Strangers showed up at their homes to record them.
People hurled abusive comments on social media. Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, testified that people mailed rape threats to her house.