Texas slashes $50m judgment against Alex Jones over false claim Sandy Hook shooting was hoax

Appeals court slashes judgment to $1.5m in a significant legal victory for the rightwing Infowars founder

A Texas appeals court has slashed the $50m judgment to $1.5m against Alex Jones, founder of the rightwing platform https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/alex-jones-josh-owens-infowars">Infowars, over falsely calling the https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newtown-shooting">2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut a hoax.

The ruling does not affect a $1.4bn judgment against Jones in Connecticut, but is a significant legal victory for Jones after he and his company, Free Speech Systems, were found liable for damages for claiming the mass shooting didn’t happen.