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Texas Court Slashes Alex Jones Settlement | Texas News
A Texas appeals court has slashed Alex Jones’s debt to Sandy Hook families from $50 million to $1.5 million, cutting the payout per family to $750,000 — the state’s legal cap — in a separate lawsuit. Jones had long promoted the false claim that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was staged, calling victims “crisis actors” and fueling years of harassment. A Connecticut judge previously ordered him to pay $1.4 billion for defamation, but this Texas ruling only affects the state-level case. With Jones’s assets frozen in bankruptcy and Infowars shut down by court order, The Onion has stepped in to…
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