Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones may finally lose his Infowars platform years after he was ordered to pay more than $1 billion to the families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims.
Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ordered Infowars’ assets to be turned over to a newly appointed state receiver on Wednesday. That receiver will then sell the assets ― including studio equipment like cameras, desks and microphones, and the Infowars brand name ― to pay the families of victims of the 2012 Connecticut school shooting.
The receiver “is appointed ... with authority to take possession of all the Turnover Property, sell the Turnover Property and pay the proceeds to [Sandy Hook families] to the extent required to satisfy the judgment,” Gamble’s court order read.
Jones was ordered to pay more than $1 billion over two separate defamation trials in 2022. For years, he had used Infowars as a platform to falsely claim that the shooting that left 20 kids and 6 adults dead was a staged plot and that their bereaved families were “crisis actors.”
During a trial in Connecticut, Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son Dylan was killed, testified that people harassed her by sending pictures of dead children as she mourned the death of her own.
