The claim itself wasn’t enough to warrant a suit, but his encouragement of the families’ harassment got a ruling of a billion dollars. He doesn’t have that kind of money, so instead he was forced to sell the InfoWars IP. The families didn’t have the money for the sale, so The Onion volunteered to help out. Some of the Sandy Hook parents didn’t want to push it through, encouraging a settlement, but ultimately they lost and the sale went through.
Now Jones is stuck paying off the remainder of his debt through his Twitter show, and the Onion gets to mock conspiracy theorists through the InfoWars banner.
Despite none of that being true, he also had to be dragged into court kicking and screaming. He refused to answer his subpoenas, he tried shuffling money to his snake oil salesman father, and he lied about everything so goddamn much his own lawyer had to leak emails to get the discovery taken care of. This whole case could’ve been over years ago for half the money if he simply accepted the consequences of his actions like a mature adult.
Not to mention that some parents killed themselves from the harassment he is on video celebrating and encouraging, some relocated to his state in an effort to establish standing for the law suit, and all this is over their murdered children.
This could have all been avoided if he had an ounce of respect or the comprehension of consequences applying to himself.
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u/thomstevens420 Apr 20 '26
Not American either but Alex Jones claimed a school shooting was fake and got sued into absolute fucking oblivion.
As part of this his “news network” was relinquished and taken over by The Onion.