A jury has awarded the parents of a slain first-grader $4.1 million dollars for mental anguish caused by conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones' falsehoods about the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Infowars founder Alex Jones listens to a supporter at the Texas State Capital building on April 18, 2020 in Austin, Texas.
"I am a mother, first and foremost, and I know that you're a father. And my son existed," said Scarlett Lewis, the mother of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who was gunned down along with 25 other children and school staffers in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. During the trial, Jones' company, Free Speech Systems LLC, filed for bankruptcy. It listed $14.3 million in assets and $79 million in liabilities. But in the next phase of Jones' trial, the parents' lawyers will argue that he is hiding millions of dollars in assets.says the Infowars online store brought in $50 million in revenue in a single year by selling alternative medicines, freeze-dried food, survivalist gear and other items.
He described himself as an opinionated pundit protected by the First Amendment, and portrayed the defamation trial as a"kangaroo court" trying to silence free speech in America.Bill Adair, a journalism professor at Duke University and co-founder of the International Fact-Checking Network, said the judgment shows the limits of the First Amendment.
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