Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Don’t pretend Jones was just an innocent victim in all of this. He wasn’t used. He knew what he was doing. That’s why he’s made so much money off of it.