Alex Jones ordered to pay $100,000 in Sandy Hook defamation case
Sandy Hook School Shooting,Alex Jones,Infowars,Courts,Justice
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The case has been brought by the father of a child killed in the Sandy Hook mass school shooting in 2012.
Mr Jones has long claimed on his show and Infowars site that the attack was "completely fake" and a "giant hoax".
Twenty children - all under the age of 10 - and six adults were killed.
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