As Texas jury deliberates, Alex Jones has more legal troubles ahead
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A Texas jury continued deliberations Thursday to determine how much Alex Jones will owe in damages to the parents of a child killed during the deadly 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Jones — a prominent conspiracy theorist and far-right broadcaster known primarily in connection with the fake news website InfoWars and its namesake talk series — lost multiple defamation lawsuits last year brought by the families of Sandy Hook victims, who alleged that his false statements claiming the tragedy was a "giant hoax" caused them undue emotional distress, mainly by way of serious harassment from his followers.
The damages trial that has taken place in Austin, Texas, where Jones' media conglomerate and the parent company of InfoWars, Free Speech Systems, is headquartered, over the last two weeks marks the final phase of a defamation suit that Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis originally filed against him and his corporation in 2018.
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