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Texas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax

Appeals court slashes judgment to $1.5m in a significant legal victory for the rightwing Infowars founder A Texas appeals court has slashed the $50m judgment to $1.5m against Alex Jones, founder of the rightwing platform Infowars , over…

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A Texas appeals court reduced the $50 million verdict against Infowars founder Alex Jones to $1.5 million. The judgment stemmed from Jones’s false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax.

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