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A Connecticut judge found Infowars host Alex Jones liable by default Monday in a defamation lawsuit brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting over the conspiracy theorist’s claims that the massacre was a hoax.
https://apnews.com/article/business-alex-jones-school-shootings-lawsuits-sandy-hook-elementary-school-shooting-154bd79946433d0b8db18dfb34906cf1
The argument:
P1. The shooting was
portrayed on Jones’ Infowars show as a hoax involving actors aimed at
increasing gun control. Jones has since acknowledged the school shooting did
occur.
P2. Families of the victims said they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy pushed on Infowars. They sued Jones and his companies for defamation and infliction of emotional distress.
P3. ( C ) Therefore, Jones SHOULD be liable, by telling a lie that can potentially KILL someone he was very publicly causing these people great harm by attacking their character, and then, admitted that the attacks were based on a lie. His attacks were not benign, and put people into great potential harm and actual and real mental anguish. The only question is how much should this cost Alex Jones?
This is an excellent article about defamation law in the USA, which, much to no surprise to me, is fantastically weird:
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