Alex Jones Must Pay $965 Million for His Sandy Hook Lies (3)

Alex Jones must pay $965 million in damages to families and an FBI agent ravaged by the Infowars founder’s lie that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax, a Connecticut jury found.

Wednesday’s verdict, which followed a four-week trial pitting the combative internet host and conspiracy theorist against the victims’ families, brings the total damages so far to more than $1 billion. That includes an award of almost $50 million from a separate trial in Texas for the family of a first-grader killed in the 2012 mass shooting.

Alex Jones speaks to news media outside state court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 21.

Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images

Chris Mattei, one of the families’ lawyers, called the ...