Infowars Parent in Talks to Resume Connecticut Defamation Trial

Aug. 24, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

Infowars’ bankrupt parent company is in talks to allow the continuation of a defamation damages trial in Connecticut state court over repeated lies that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was a hoax.

Free Speech Systems LLC, the production company of right-wing provocateur Alex Jones, is working with the families of victims killed in the Connecticut school shooting to proceed with a state court trial that will determine damages for perpetuating a conspiracy theory that their deaths were faked. The trial has been on hold as a result of the company’s filing for bankruptcy in Texas.

Free Speech, which has ...

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