Infowars show host Alex Jones has to pay USD$965 million (AUD$1.5 billion) to eight victims’ families, including an FBI Agent that suffered from his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre shooting.

Jones spent many years on his show InfoWars falsely accusing the victims’ families of being actors and faking the tragedy on screen. Jones accused the shooting of being a “hoax” as a plot to take away people’s guns. He has been found liable for defamation during yesterday’s jury decision.

The eight victims’ families and the FBI agent faced years of harassment and threats in person and on the internet. One of the eight victims’ fathers Mark Branden, even received a letter threatening to desecrate his son’s grave.

“To hear people were desecrating it and urinating on it and threatening to dig it up, I don’t know how to articulate to you what that feels like, but that’s where we are,” he said.

However, Jones who did not attend yesterday’s court hearing, refuses to apologise to the families and called the USD$965 million judgement a “joke”.

“Do these people actually think they’re getting any money?” he said.

Jones alongside Owen Shroyer, is currently holding an emergency broadcast, that will last more than 16 hours, starting from 12am this morning. Jones said this is to “save Infowars” and is urging people to donate to them.

“For hundreds of thousands of dollars, I can keep them in court for years. I can appeal this stuff,” he said.

Although Jones had admitted the massacre was “real” in August, he still continued to cast doubts on other school shootings as an attempt to frighten people away from “questioning Uvalde”, the elementary mass shooting in May this year.

“We’re not going away, and we’re not going to stop.”

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