Alex Jones
Alex Jones finally faces consequences. Hateful lies have to come with a cost.
A Texas jury ordered the host of the noxious Infowars website to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Rex Huppke
USA TODAY
Conspiracy theorist and human-body-in-search-of-a-soul Alex Jones is learning, at long last, there’s a price for lying. There’s a price for being a monster, for leveraging the pain of others to make a buck peddling deceit.
A Texas jury on Friday ordered the host of the notoriously noxious Infowars website to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. That's on top of more than $4 million in compensatory damages ordered by the same jury Thursday.
Almost $50 million total. To me, that still isn't enough for the hell he put Neil Heslin, Scarlett Lewis and the other parents who lost children in the school shooting through.