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Court reduces $50 million award against Infowars' Alex Jones to $1.5 million in Sandy Hook hoax case

Court reduces $50 million award against Infowars' Alex Jones to $1.5 million in Sandy Hook hoax case

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August 21st, 2026

Court reduces $50 million award against Infowars' Alex Jones to $1.5 million in Sandy Hook hoax case

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A Texas appeals court on Friday reduced a $50 million damages award against Infowars founder Alex Jones to $1.5 million.

ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์›์ด ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ, ์ธํฌ์›Œ์Šค ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ์ž ์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์กด์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐฐ์ƒ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ 150๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jones was sued for falsely claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

์กด์Šค๋Š” 2012๋…„ ์ƒŒ๋””ํ›… ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์ด๊ธฐ๋‚œ์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊ทน์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ ํ˜์˜๋กœ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This reduction does not affect the $1.25 billion judgment issued in Connecticut.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์•ก์€ ์ฝ”๋„คํ‹ฐ์ปท์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค์ง„ 12์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์—๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The appeals court said the parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis did not provide enough evidence. They needed to show that harassment from Jones's claims went over the $750,000 limit per victim under Texas law.

ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์›์€ ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ ๋‹ ํ—ค์Šฌ๋ฆฐ๊ณผ ์Šค์นผ๋ › ๋ฃจ์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ์กด์Šค์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์ด ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์ฃผ๋ฒ•์ƒ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๋‹น 75๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒํ•œ์„ ๋„˜์„ ๋งŒํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The court ruled that the lower court improperly allowed claims for damages above the limit.

์žฌํŒ๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•˜๊ธ‰ ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์ƒํ•œ์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์ƒ์„ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ถ€์ ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Their six-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was one of the 20 children killed in the Newtown attack.

๋‘ ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฏ ์‚ด ์•„๋“ค ์ œ์‹œ ๋ฃจ์ด์Šค๋Š” ๋‰ดํƒ€์šด ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆจ์ง„ 20๋ช…์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jones has described this ruling as an attack on his First Amendment rights, but during the trial he admitted the shooting was "100% real."

์กด์Šค๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ—Œ๋ฒ• ์ œ1์กฐ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•ด ์™”์ง€๋งŒ, ์žฌํŒ ์ค‘์—๋Š” ์ด๊ฒฉ์ด "100% ์‹ค์ œ"์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

On Friday's broadcast, he called the decision "a huge victory for the First Amendment" and said he would keep appealing to the state supreme court.

๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ "์ˆ˜์ •ํ—Œ๋ฒ• ์ œ1์กฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์Šน๋ฆฌ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์— ๊ณ„์† ํ•ญ์†Œํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Parents' lawyer Mark Bankston dismissed the ruling as "irrelevant," noting Jones still faces over one billion dollars in liability.

ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ ์ธก ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ๋งˆํฌ ๋ฑ…ํฌ์Šคํ„ด์€ ์กด์Šค๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์€ "๊ด€๋ จ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ผ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, have filed for bankruptcy and have not paid any damages yet.

์กด์Šค์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ํ”„๋ฆฌ ์Šคํ”ผ์น˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ฆˆ๋Š” ํŒŒ์‚ฐ์„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์•„์ง ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ๋„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The satirical website The Onion is pushing to buy Jones's Infowars platform.

ํ’์ž ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๋”” ์–ด๋‹ˆ์–ธ์€ ์กด์Šค์˜ ์ธํฌ์›Œ์Šค ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In April, Jones dropped the Infowars brand and moved his broadcasts to a new website.

์กด์Šค๋Š” 4์›”์— ์ธํฌ์›Œ์Šค ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์„ ์˜ฎ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Connecticut lawsuit lawyer Christopher Mattei said this ruling will not affect the company's ongoing liquidation process in Texas.

์ฝ”๋„คํ‹ฐ์ปท ์†Œ์†ก ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ† ํผ ๋งˆํ…Œ์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์ด ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฒญ์‚ฐ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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