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Texas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax
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What happenedTexas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax.
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CenterTexas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax
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Right / center-rightCourt slashes Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook judgment by a whopping $43 million
Court slashes Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook judgment by a whopping $43 million
Conspiracy theorist and provocateur extraordinaire Alex Jones just got a slight break in the hefty defamation costs he owes. Four years ago, a Texas jury in Austin […]
Texas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax
A Texas appeals court has slashed the $50m judgment to $1.5m against Alex Jones, founder of the rightwing platform Infowars, over falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newt...
