The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The verdict levied against Jones was far below the $150m or more the plaintiffs had requested that jurors in Austin, Texas, award them
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