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This Day in Legal History: The Alex Jones Verdict
On October 12, 2022, a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, ordered Alex Jones and his company to pay about $965 million to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and to an FBI agent who responded that day. For years, Jones had told his audience the massacre, in which 20 children and six educators were killed, was a hoax staged by “crisis actors.” His followers harassed and threatened grieving parents, some of whom had to move repeatedly to escape them. The judge later added hundreds of millions more in punitive…
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