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Alex Jones’s Infowars files for bankruptcy amid Sandy Hook lawsuits

By Christopher Hutton
Published April 18, 2022 12:19pm ET
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Alex Jones’s Infowars files for bankruptcy amid Sandy Hook lawsuits
Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside of the Dirksen building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Sept. 5, 2018. Jones will be getting back the $75,000 in fines he paid to a Connecticut court for failing to appear at a deposition last month in a lawsuit over his assertions that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a judge has ruled, Thursday, April 14, 2022.

Talk show host Alex Jones’s broadcast website Infowars filed for bankruptcy amid several defamation lawsuits.

Infowars and two other companies Jones owns filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

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