InfoWars is dead? Alex Jones must pay twice the amount that would 'sink' site in Sandy Hook case

If $2 million would "sink" InfoWars, maybe a multi-million dollar judgment will put the final nail in the Alex Jones empire's coffin?

In a matter of mere hours, a jury handed down a judgment on Thursday against InfoWars founder Alex Jones, ordering the conspiracy theorist to pay more than $4.1 million in compensatory damages to the parents of Sandy Hook victims over Jones’ incessant lies and monstrous conspiracies about the massacre. Since the 2012 shooting that claimed the lives of 26 people, including 20 children, Jones has been claiming the shooting was a hoax, that the children who died weren’t real, and that their parents, who’ve continued to suffer from Jones’ attacks, were actors.

Jones’ own legal team claimed that any judgment above $2 million would “sink” his beloved InfoWars media empire, but it’s Jones’ own actions over the course of the trial that may have truly buried the 48-year-old beyond this case. His cellphone records dating back two years are now in the hands of a lawyer representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim—courtesy of Jones’ own attorney. Those records have been requested by law enforcement agencies and the Jan. 6 committee.

$4.1 mill. is obviously well below what the Sandy Hook parents' lawyers were asking for in this case.

This isn't totally surprising considering the jury questioning yesterday, some of which discussed things like Jones being open to doing community service.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 4, 2022

It’s unclear if Jones is on the hook for the full amount, given a code in Texas capping punitive damages.

rather than try to summarize what he said, here’s video of Bankston explaining the cap on punitive damages pic.twitter.com/CSrYPEL0Un

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 4, 2022

Per Texas law, “exemplary damages awarded against a defendant may not exceed an amount equal to the greater of: two times the amount of economic damages;  plus an amount equal to any noneconomic damages found by the jury, not to exceed $750,000; or $200,000.”