Court slashes $50M judgment against Infowars’ Alex Jones over falsely calling school shooting a hoax

In a significant legal victory for Infowars founder Alex Jones, a Texas court has reduced the $50 million judgment to $1.5 million following false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The ruling does not impact the $1.4 billion judgment already imposed on Jones in Connecticut, but it marks the first time Jones has been held financially responsible for spreading misinformation about the massacre.

The Texas Third Court of Appeals determined that Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis could not prove that Jones' hoax claims caused damages exceeding the state's $750,000 cap. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, had previously been found liable in this case.