August 8, 2022 News 8/5/2022 – Alex Jones will be paying a lot more than $4 million to the parents of Sandy Hook victims. The jury ordered him Friday to pay an additional $45.2 million in punitive damages, on top of the $4.1 million they awarded on Thursday. Jones lost a defamation lawsuit after he propagated conspiracies that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax and the families involved were paid actors. Share