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Court slashes $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely calling school shooting a hoax

  • A Texas appeals court cut a $50 million judgment against Alex Jones to $1.5 million over his Sandy Hook “hoax” claims.
  • The reduction doesn’t touch a separate $1.4 billion Connecticut judgment; Jones has appealed and is in bankruptcy proceedings.
  • Jones has moved off the Infowars brand (conceded the shooting was real), and The Onion has begun parodying/taking over Infowars-style pages.
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