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Alex Jones to Sell InfoWars to Pay $1.5 Billion Debt to Sandy Hook Families

The far-right conspiracy theorist used InfoWars to push the false claim that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.

Jones asked a judge to convert his bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation, relinquishing his desperate effort to save InfoWars, the conspiracy platform from which he regularly spewed baseless claims. The next day, the Sandy Hook families asked the Texas judge overseeing his bankruptcy case to liquidate his assets, including InfoWars and Free Speech Systems. Jones was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims in 2022 by courts in Texas and Connecticut, who found that he caused them emotional distress by claiming the 2012 massacre was a hoax intended by the government to seize Americans’ guns.

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