based on wild conspiracy theories he spread after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be allowed to move forward, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, continuing the legal battle against Jones relating to some of the most infamous comments the brazen InfoWars host has made on his show.... [+]The suits come from the parents of two of the 20 students who were among the 28 who died at the elementary school on Dec. 14, 2012.
Jones had claimed in the past that"no one died" at the school and that it was a false flag operation aimed at taking away Americans' guns, leading to some of Jones' followers harassing and stalking the victims' families. He spread similar false conspiracy theories after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, claiming that students were crisis actors.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday also allowed a defamation suit relating to that school shooting to move forward, relating to a man InfoWars mistakenly named a suspect in the massacre.The Texas Supreme Court rejected the challenges from Jones’ legal team, which sought to dismiss the suits, without comment.Alex Jones and his online InfoWars talk show became one of the prominent sources for misinformation and conspiracy theories in the early 2010s, predating the.
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