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Posted: 2022-10-12T19:48:30Z | Updated: 2022-10-13T14:36:27Z

A Connecticut jury has found that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million to several family members of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting for spreading lies that the shooting was fake.

Jurors deliberated for three days in a trial that lasted five weeks. Multiple Sandy Hook family members, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the 2012 school shooting, sued Jones for his continued claims that the massacre of 20 children and six adults never happened. It did.

Testimony in the Connecticut trial which took place just 20 minutes from where the shooting happened revealed the inner workings of Jones media company and highlighted the cruelty family members faced from harassers. It was the second such trial in three months, with a Texas jury finding Jones must pay more than $45 million to a pair of Sandy Hook parents in August. Hell have to face trial in Texas again for his final Sandy Hook defamation case at a date to be determined.