Alex Jones ordered to pay $65m in punitive damages

A Texas jury on Friday ordered Alex Jones to pay $US45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim, a day after he was ordered to pay $US4.1 million in actual damages for claiming that the school shooting was a hoax.

“I suggest to you to return a verdict that is proportionate,” Jones’ attorney Andino Reynal countered during his own closing, asking jurors to order just $US270,000 in punitive damages. “You’ve already sent a message. A message for the first time to a talk show host, to all talk show hosts, that their standard of care has to change.

The Texas law “protects companies and bad actors like Alex Jones, so that they’re never going to be punished to the full extent that would be needed to truly deter them from future actions and to teach other people that this is bad behaviour”, said Carrie Goldberg of the C.A. Goldberg Law Firm in New York. “Texas is unusual.

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