The ‘Infowars’ host had argued the Connecticut school shooting was a hoax
Right-wing pundit Alex Jones has been found liable for damages in a trio of defamation cases filed against him by the parents of three children who were shot dead in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A judge in Austin, Texas, where Jones’ conspiracy-pushing Infowars site is based, entered default judgments against the conservative host and his program for “flagrant bad faith and callous disregard” of court orders to surrender documents to attorneys representing the parents in the case. Jones, who said “ they clearly used actors ” in the Newtown, Conn., slaughter in which a gunman killed 20 students and six staffers, had dismissed the tragedy as a hoax. It was his suggestion that gun-control activists were behind some sort of ruse to draw sympathy to their cause.
