The Sandy Hook elementary school shooting occured in 2012 and killed 26 people in total (20 of them 6-7 years old). Alex Jones claimed that the shooting was "staged" by the government so they could take away guns from americans. This claim gained around 550 million views. Some of those viewers started harassing the Sandy Hook victims' families with some "urinating" on the graves of the victims and threatening to "dig it up". This decade long harassment had an emotional and physical impact on the families involved. 

In the three week long trial held in Connecticut, the juries heard statements from individual members of the family that were effected by Alex Jones' statement and the families sought for $550 million in retribution for the emotional turmoil they had to endure. On Wednesday, it was announced that the juries had awarded the family 15 separate awards which totalled to the sum of $965 million. 

However we do not know whether they will receive this amount of money as Alex Jones stated there "ain't no money" and his company have filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas. 

This is Alex Jones' second court case about the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, in his previous case, he was told to pay $49 million to the victims. He will have another court case about his claims and the impact they have had on the victims' families again later in the year. 

Alex Jones is a far-right conspiracy theorist and the owner of a website called InfoWars. His interest in conspiracy theory first kicked off after reading a book called "None dare call it conspiracy" by the conspiracy theorist Gary Allen and later went on to say that it was "the easiest-to-read primer on The New World Order". Alex Jones has claimed that the government and big businesses have unlawfully worked together to create a "New world order" which is a conspiracy theory that believes a there will be a totalitarian government that secretly emerges. His broadcasting career started to kick off in 1996, hosting a show called "The final edition", later creating the famous website "InforWars" with his then-wife, Kelly Jones. 

The InfoWars website has an average of 10 million monthly visits and the site has regularly published conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attack and Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.