Alex Jones admits Sandy Hook shootings were real

Infowars founder has been ordered to pay $4.1m damages to parents of boy killed in the attack

Alex Jones bellows into a loud hailer
The far-right broadcaster now believes the incident was ‘100% real’
(Image credit: (Sergio Flores/Getty Images))

The far-right broadcaster Alex Jones has been ordered by a Texas jury to pay $4.1m (£3.4m) in damages after repeatedly claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

Twenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012. In the aftermath of the shooting, Jones baselessly claimed that the incident was staged, but he told a court this week that he now believes the incident was “100% real”.

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