Live updates: Alex Jones' latest defamation trial kicks off as a judge punished him for not handing over web data
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- Alex Jones' second of three defamation trials kicked off Tuesday.
- This damages trial will determine how much he has to pay to the parents of Sandy Hook victims.
InfoWars host Alex Jones faces another defamation lawsuit in Connecticut this month to determine how much he must pay the families of Sandy Hook victims.
This is the second of three trials Jones will face over claims of defamation for his coverage of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, during which he touted lies about the Sandy Hook massacre on his show — specifically calling it a "hoax."
Jones has already been found liable in the trial, which will now set how much he owes the families.
And a Texas jury already ordered Jones last month to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of Jesse Williams, a Sandy Hook victim.
Sister of hero Newtown teacher says even a longtime classmate questioned whether she was a crisis actor after Alex Jones' coverage
Within a couple of months of her older sister Victoria Soto dying in the December 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, Carlee Soto-Parisi says she first learned that many people thought the massacre never really happened.
"It's hurtful, it's devastating, it's crippling," Soto-Parisi, 29, said on Tuesday in Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury. "You can't grieve properly because you're constantly defending yourself, defending your family, your loved ones."
Soto-Parisi was among the first to testify on Tuesday in the lawsuit filed by a Sandy Hook first responder and several victims' families against Jones, the conspiracy theorist who long perpetuated a lie that the shooting was a hoax.
Alex Jones' attorney suggests at defamation trial that Sandy Hook plaintiffs are just anti-gun activists
The defense attorney for InfoWars host Alex Jones suggested during his defamation damages trial Tuesday that parents of children who died during the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre are exaggerating their claims to promote an anti-gun political agenda.
During his opening remarks, Norm Pattis said the plaintiffs were attempting to silence Jones for supporting the Second Amendment.
Jones has long falsely claimed that the massacre was a charade designed to give the government a reason to take away people's guns.
A judge punished Alex Jones for refusing to turn over data that could reveal how much he made from Sandy Hook coverage
InfoWars host Alex Jones has been punished by a judge for not turning over documents to Sandy Hook families' lawyers — again.
The right-wing conspiracy theorist was sanctioned by a Connecticut judge on Tuesday at the opening of his defamation damages trial in the state for not turning over enough web data about his coverage of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Alex Jones' leaked texts reveal the conspiracy theorist used a network of spies against his wife and ex-wife, report says
Conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones monitored both his current wife and ex-wife using spies and covert informers, texts described to Rolling Stone by unnamed sources reveal.
Attorneys representing Jones accidentally transferred the trove of texts to a lawyer representing Sandy Hook parents who had sued Jones for defamation.
Although the texts were never made public, sources familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone they detail some of the methods Jones used to keep tabs on his ex-wife, Kelly Jones, and his current wife, Erika Wulff-Jones.
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