Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered by a Texas jury to pay a total of $49.3 million to the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones falsely claimed the massacre was a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.
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