Published Aug 20, 2026, 8:00 PM ET · Updated 3 months ago · 2 sources
Texas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax
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A Texas appeals court has slashed the $50m judgment to $1.5m against Alex Jones, founder of the rightwing platform Infowars, over falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut a hoax. The ruling does not affect a $1.4bn judgment against Jones in Connecticut, but is a significant legal victory for Jones after he and his company, Free Speech Systems, were found liable for damages for claiming the mass shooting didn’t happen. The unanimous opinion issued by the Texas t