Texas court reduces Alex Jones
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Texas court reduces Alex Jones damages award to $1.5 million

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was ordered to pay large damages for his lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, has had some of his compensation claims significantly reduced.

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A court in Texas has reduced a damages award of $50 million, equivalent to just over 473 million kronor, to $1.5 million.

The decision does not affect the larger damages award in Connecticut, of more than $1.2 billion.

The court does not believe that the two parents who sued Alex Jones in Texas have shown that they suffered enough for the state to raise its damages cap of $750,000 per person.

The parents' six-year-old son was one of 20 children shot dead by a 20-year-old man in the Newton, Connecticut, shooting. Six adults at the school and the gunman's mother were also killed.

Alex Jones attacked the parents of the dead children for a long time via the website Infowars, calling the massacre a hoax.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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