Alex Jones loses appeal over US$1.4 billion Sandy Hook defamation

The US Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to a US$1.4 billion judgment awarded to families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut over the Infowars website founder’s false statements that the 2012 incident was a hoax.
The justices turned away his appeal of the Connecticut Appellate Court’s decision in a defamation lawsuit against him to uphold most of the judgment issued by a judge and jury in 2022 to…