Alex Jones tillgångar ska betala Sandy Hook-skulder
Konspirationsteoretikern Alex Jones personliga tillgångar ska säljas för att betala de motsvarande över 15 miljarder kronorna han är skyldig familjerna till Sandy Hook-offren i skadestånd. Det fastslog en amerikansk domare på fredagen enligt AP.
Jones bostad i Austin är undantagen från beslutet, men han har bland annat tvingats sälja sin ranch i Texas, sin vapensamling och andra tillgångar för att betala sina sklder
Ännu har inget rättsligt beslut fattats om huruvida hans företag Free Speech Systems, som äger nätplattformen Infowars, ska likvideras för att betala skulderna.
Jones dömdes 2022 för förtal efter att ha hävdat att skolskjutningen i Sandy Hook var en ”falsk flagg-operation” utförd av skådespelare.
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Alex Jones
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Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which was previously broadcast by the Genesis Communications Network across the United States via syndicated and internet radio. Jones's website, InfoWars, promotes conspiracy theories and fake news, as do his other websites, NewsWars and PrisonPlanet. Jones has provided a platform and support for white nationalists, giving Nick Fuentes a platform on his website, Banned.Video, as well as providing an "entry point" to their ideology. In 2023, leaked texts from Jones's phone revealed that he created the website National File.
The conspiracy theories that Jones has promoted allege that the United States government either concealed information about or outright falsified the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 1969 Moon landing. He has also claimed that several governments and large businesses have colluded to create a "New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".
A longtime critic of Republican and Democratic foreign and security policy, Jones supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and continued to support him as a savior from an alleged criminal bipartisan cabal controlling the federal government, despite falling out over several of Trump's policies including airstrikes against the Assad regime. A staunch supporter of Trump's re-election, Jones also supported the false claims of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election. On January 6, 2021, Jones was a speaker at the rally in Lafayette Square Park supporting Trump preceding the latter's supporters' attack on the US Capitol.
In 2022, for Jones's defamatory falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting, juries in Connecticut and Texas awarded a total of $1.487 billion in damages from Jones to a first responder and families of victims; the plaintiffs alleged that Jones's lies led to them being threatened and harassed for years. On December 2, 2022, Jones filed for personal bankruptcy.
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