A Connecticut judge has today ordered right-wing US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay an additional US$473 million ($715.25 million) in punitive damages over the lies he told about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis awarded the families over US$323 million ($488.42 million) in common law punitive damages for attorney's fees and costs and US$150 million ($226.82 million) in damages under a state law called the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, which prohibits unfair competition and deceptive acts."The record also establishes that the defendants repeated the conduct and attacks on the plaintiffs for nearly a decade, including during the trial, wanton, malicious, and heinous conduct that caused harm to the plaintiffs," Bellis said in her decision.
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