Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay over US$45m for false school shooting claims

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WASHINGTON, Aug 6 — A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yesterday to pay US$45.2 million (RM201.4 million) in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a “hoax.” The verdict came a day after the same jury awarded a couple whose child died at Sandy Hook US$4.1 million in compensatory damages for the emotional stress caused by Jones broadcasting falsehoods for years on his InfoWars online and radio talk shows.The huge sum ordered from Jones, who for years gathered a sizable following for his often outlandish conspiracy claims, vindicated the lawsuits against him by families of some of the 20 schoolchildren and six adults killed by a 20-year-old man in one of the country’s deadliest school shootings.The US$49.3 million total judgement was awarded to the plaintiffs in the Texas case, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Le…