Jury Finds Alex Jones Must Pay $4.1 Million to Parents of Sandy Hook Victim

Alex Jones during trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 3, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool, File

A Texas jury on Aug. 4 ordered Alex Jones, founder and host of the Infowars radio show and webcast, to pay $4.1 million to the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting, marking the first time he has been held financially liable for spreading the false claim that the shooting was a hoax.

Sandy Hook refers to the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people—20 of whom were children between 6 and 7 years old—at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012.