Nation Aug 21 Court slashes $50M judgment against Alex Jones over falsely calling Sandy Hook shooting a hoax By Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
Nation Jul 02 The Onion's new parody of Alex Jones' Infowars starts with $100,000 to Sandy Hook families The families have still received no money from Jones since courts ordered him to pay more than $1 billion for falsely calling the 2012 shooting a hoax. By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press
Nation Apr 21 The Onion launches new bid to take control of Alex Jones' Infowars A lawyer for the Sandy Hook families who sued Jones in Connecticut said they support The Onion's plan. By Dave Collins, Associated Press
Nation Oct 14 Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting The justices issued their order Tuesday without even asking the victims' families to respond to Jones' appeal. By Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Nation Dec 11 After judge rejects The Onion's winning auction bid, Alex Jones keeps Infowars for now The judge criticized the bidding process as flawed as well as the amount of money that families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting stood to receive. By Dave Collins, Associated Press
Nov 14 Satirical news site The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction By Dave Collins, Associated Press The sale price was not immediately disclosed. Jones said on social media that he planned to challenge the sale in court. Continue reading
Jun 14 Future of Infowars uncertain as judge orders Alex Jones to sell personal assets to pay for Sandy Hook lawsuit By Dave Collins, Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Jones' proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation, but threw out the attempted reorganization of his company, Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Systems. Many of the Sandy Hook families had asked that the company also be… Continue reading
Sep 12 Infowars host Owen Shroyer gets 2 months in prison in Capitol insurrection case By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Prosecutors said Shroyer "helped create" Jan. 6, 2021, by spewing violent rhetoric and spreading baseless claims of election fraud to hundreds of thousands of viewers. Continue reading
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Oct 22 Alex Jones seeks new trial after $965 million verdict in Sandy Hook lawsuit By Dave Collins, Associated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats… Continue reading