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A jury has ordered conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones<\/a> to pay $4.1 million to the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The decision<\/a> followed a trial that saw Jones and his counsel break courtroom protocol<\/a> and \u2014 at one point \u2014 accidentally send<\/a> copies of Jones\u2019 phone records to the opposing legal team. The fine marks one of the first concrete legal consequences for Jones\u2019 false claims that the shooting was a staged \u201cfalse flag,\u201d which led to years of harassment for parents. But it represents only a fraction of the money Jones has made in the years since.<\/p>\n
Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse Lewis was one of the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook, had requested $150 million in compensation for Jones\u2019 statements about Sandy Hook. As The New York Times <\/em>notes<\/a>, the jury will meet again after today\u2019s verdict to consider whether to award further punitive damages. Jones will face a total of three trials from Sandy Hook parents; since he lost defamation cases in all three by default<\/a> for refusing to produce documents to the court, the jury in each case will be deciding financial penalties.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe have a plan to stay on air\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nSo far, however, Jones claims to be undeterred. \u201cWe have a plan to stay on air. We can pay for these kangaroo trials,\u201d he said on a live video broadcast between ads for health supplements and other products. (Jones was banned from major web platforms<\/a> in 2018 and 2019, a fate he compared<\/a> to being \u201ctechnically … still on Earth, but you\u2019re in prison\u201d during the trial.) Jones claimed during the trial<\/a> that any fine over $2 million would \u201csink\u201d him, but court evidence showed that Jones\u2019 site Infowars made $50 million a year even after being \u201cdeplatformed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jones also apparently took steps to hide his money during the trial. His company Free Speech Systems (FSS) declared bankruptcy<\/a> with a $54 million debt to another company that appears to be controlled by Jones, and he\u2019s been accused<\/a> of \u201csystematically siphoning large amounts of money\u201d out of FSS to limit his losses. The bankruptcy filing put the following two trials, which were previously scheduled for September, on hold.<\/p>\n
The bizarre trial has highlighted both the limits of Jones\u2019 fabulist approach to media and the difficulty of holding him accountable in court. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble expressed open frustration<\/a> at Jones for lying on the stand, reminding him that \u201cyour belief that something is true does not make it true.\u201d She also chided his (eleventh<\/a>) lawyer, Andino Reynal, for letting one of Jones\u2019s witnesses go on air with him to discuss the case. \u201cThis is not your show,\u201d Judge Gamble told Jones at one point<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nJones eventually conceded Sandy Hook was real<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nJones also conceded during the trial<\/a> that the Sandy Hook shooting was \u201c100 percent\u201d real, his previous statements notwithstanding. \u201cI unintentionally took part in things that did hurt these people\u2019s feelings,\u201d said Jones \u2014 who aired segments suggesting, among other things, that Heslin had lied about holding his dead son in his arms. \u201cI\u2019m sorry for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
But as legal writer Ken White noted before the verdict<\/a>, the ruling won\u2019t necessarily diminish the audience for Jones\u2019 frequently untrue claims or his ability to make money off them, even if he\u2019s given up this particular theory. \u201cThe people who enjoyed his Sandy Hook trutherism didn\u2019t enjoy it because it was factually convincing or coherent; they enjoyed the emotional state it conveyed because it matched theirs,\u201d wrote White. \u201cThe plodding technicalities of law are probably inadequate to change their minds.\u201d That makes defamation claims a cost-benefit calculation for Jones. So far, the costs include today\u2019s $4 million verdict, some much smaller previous<\/a> fines<\/a>, and a reported $15 million in legal fees<\/a> \u2014 and the benefits tens of millions of dollars made each year.<\/p>\n
Even so, the trials will continue to pose a legal headache for Jones \u2014 and they\u2019re not over yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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