It's more that he called out specific victims as paid actors, who then went on to get harassed by his viewers. If he'd stayed vague he might have gotten away with it.

I recall reading he got hit so hard because he pissed of the judge during the trial by acting like an butt. I honestly couldn't tell you more though—that type of drama isn't really my jam, so we'll need a different nerd to illuminate things.

100 bajilion dollar fine

Alex Jones is an r-slur and sometimes the people really just need to see someone get strung up. It's a win/win, unless you're Alex Jones but then it's still probably a win because this gives him an excuse to raise the price of his Natural Male Enhancement™

!freespeech

@The_Homocracy come over

No, they ordered him to pay 1.4 billion in one case in Connecticut and a couple hundred million in 4 others in Texas and he did r-slur shit with r-slur attorneys and got bussy blasted for doing it.

He should have taken it seriously and he wouldn't have been so far in.

He should have refrained from making defamatory statements in the first place but hey, nobody is perfect.

On June 26, 2018, seven families of victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court against Jones, Infowars, Free Speech Systems, Infowars Health and others for spreading false claims, resulting in the harassment, stalking and threatening of the plaintiffs.[284]

By February 2019, the plaintiffs won a series of court rulings requiring Jones to testify under oath.[9] Jones was later ordered to undergo a sworn deposition, along with three other defendants related to the operation of Infowars. He was also ordered to turn over internal business documents related to Infowars.[285] In this deposition in the last week of March 2019, Jones acknowledged the deaths were real, stating he had "almost like a form of psychosis", where he "basically thought everything was staged".[286]

On March 25, 2019, Jeremy Richman, one of the plaintiffs, whose daughter Avielle was killed, committed suicide. Jones, through his lawyer, offered condolences to Richman's family, but later that day on his show suggested that Richman had been murdered and that his death had something to do with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference.[287]

On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear an appeal by Jones against a court sanction in the lawsuit.[288]

On November 15, 2021, the judge found Jones liable by default for defamation, for "willful non-compliance" in failing to turn over documents to the families in line with court orders.[289][290][291]

This is the big one. He gaffed the entire thing off and made it a sideshow and he got his pee pee slapped for it. That's why.

!lawyers

On March 29, 2022, Jones offered a settlement of $120,000 to each of the thirteen people involved in the lawsuits, which was quickly rejected.[292][293]

On June 2, 2022, Jones's attorneys asked the judge to drop them from the case. The judge said she had heard this before, citing thirteen times in the past four years when Jones' attorneys asked to replace each other or be dropped from the case. She ordered them to continue to represent Jones until she ruled on the motion on June 15. [294]

On October 12, 2022,[295] the jury awarded $965 million to be shared by 15 plaintiffs (eight families and one first responder). The plaintiffs' individual awards ranged from $28.8 million to $120 million.[296] During the trial, the families testified that they had been threatened and harassed over years due to Jones' falsehoods.[297][41] Jones reacted live to the verdict on his show, mocking it: "Do these people actually think they're getting any money?" He implored his viewers to donate to him to "appeal", and also declared that the jury's verdict was an attempt to "scare us away from questioning" school shootings such as the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Robb Elementary School shooting, but "we're not going to stop".[298]

On November 10, 2022, the judge awarded the plaintiffs a further $473 million in punitive damages in the form of lawyers' fees, bringing the total to over $1.4 billion. The judge also issued an order that Jones was "not to transfer, encumber, dispose or move his assets out of the United States until further order of the court".[299]

Jones moved for a new trial, but on December 22, 2022, the judge denied his request.[300]

By the end of the summer of 2023, Jones had paid nothing to the families.[301]

https://casetext.com/case/lafferty-v-jones-2