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Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1 million to Sandy Hook parents in defamation case

By Cami Mondeaux
Published August 4, 2022 9:30pm ET
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1 million to Sandy Hook parents in defamation case
In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside of the Dirksen building of Capitol Hill in Washington. | (Jose Luis Magana/AP)


A jury in Austin, Texas, ordered Alex Jones to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to the parents who lost children in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School who sued the InfoWars host for defamation.

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