Alex Jones is not backing down after a Connecticut jury slapped him with a record $965 million in damages for lying about the Sandy Hook school shooting.
The Infowars founder vowed to keep terrorizing the families of school shooting victims.
The jury announced the largest award ever for a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday after finding that Jones lied when he called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre “a hoax.”
The jury dismissed Jones’ defense that his lies were protected under freedom of speech. He was ordered to pay damages to eight families who lost victims in the 2012 school shooting.
20 first-graders and 6 school administrators were killed by a lone gunman. An FBI agent who was first to respond to the mass shooting was also killed.
Jones didn’t attend the verdict announcement in person. He boycotted the final week of the trial and live-streamed the verdict on his Infowars blog.
He vowed to continue questioning school shootings, including the school massacres in Uvalde, Texas and Parkland, Florida.
Jones plans to appeal the jury award and keep the families in court for years. He also asked his Infowars live-stream viewers to purchase products from his website to help him appeal the verdict.
“Literally, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, I can keep them in court for years,” he said. “I can appeal this stuff, we can stand up against… the billions of dollars they want.”
He added: “They want to scare everybody away from freedom. We’re not going away, we’re not going to stop.”
Jones was also ordered to pay more than $50 million to the families at a separate trial in August.
Alex Jones responds to owing around $1B in damages to Sandy Hook families by shamelessly asking for donations to fund InfoWars:
"They want to … scare us away from questioning Uvalde … or Parkland … We're not scared, and we're not going away, and we're not going to stop." pic.twitter.com/KT1YR7p9tI
— The Recount (@therecount) October 12, 2022
