Infowars’ Alex Jones ordered to pay parents $4m over Sandy Hook massacre hoax claim

Alex Jones at the Travis County Courthouse during his defamation trial in Austin. Photo: Briana Sanchez/Reuters

A Texas jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4m (€3.9m) in damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

It marks the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in US history was a hoax.