The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect

The world has known Alex Jones was liable for defaming the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary for almost a year, since Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis issued a default judgment against the world’s most notorious shock jock and conspiracy theorist in November 2021. In reality, most knew Jones was liable after he floated the idea that the 2012 mass murder of 20 children, six educators, and the attacker’s mother was a “government operation” while speaking on an Infowars broadcast in April 2013. It would be the first of many times he repeated the lie.

What the world didn’t know until yesterday was quite how much Jones would have

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