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Court reduces $50 million ruling against Infowars' Alex Jones to $1.5 million in Newtown school shooting hoax case.

Court reduces $50 million ruling against Infowars' Alex Jones to $1.5 million in Newtown school shooting hoax case.

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August 21st, 2026

Court reduces $50 million ruling against Infowars' Alex Jones to $1.5 million in Newtown school shooting hoax case.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

A Texas appeals court made a decision on Friday.

ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์›์ด ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It cut Infowars founder Alex Jones's $50 million payment to $1.5 million.

์ธํฌ์›Œ์Šค ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ์ž ์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์กด์Šค์˜ 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ์„ 150๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jones was sued.

์กด์Šค๋Š” ์†Œ์†ก์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He falsely said the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

๊ทธ๋Š” 2012๋…„ ์ƒŒ๋””ํ›… ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์ด๊ธฐ๋‚œ์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊ทน์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This cut does not affect the $1.25 billion decision in Connecticut.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์•ก์€ ์ฝ”๋„คํ‹ฐ์ปท์˜ 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 have enough proof.

ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์›์€ ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ ๋‹ ํ—ค์Šฌ๋ฆฐ๊ณผ ์Šค์นผ๋ › ๋ฃจ์ด์Šค์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They were hurt by Jones's claims.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์กด์Šค์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Texas state law sets a limit of 750,000 dollars for each victim.

ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์ฃผ๋ฒ•์€ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๋‹น 75๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒํ•œ์„ ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The court said the lower court was wrong to allow more than the limit.

์žฌํŒ๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•˜๊ธ‰ ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์ƒํ•œ์„ ๋„˜๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์ƒ์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž˜๋ชป์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Their six-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, died in the Newtown attack.

๋‘ ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฏ ์‚ด ์•„๋“ค ์ œ์‹œ ๋ฃจ์ด์Šค๋Š” ๋‰ดํƒ€์šด ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆจ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He was one of the 20 children.

๊ทธ๋Š” 20๋ช…์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jones has called this decision an attack on his rights.

์กด์Šค๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He means his First Amendment rights.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ •ํ—Œ๋ฒ• ์ œ1์กฐ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But during the trial, he admitted the shooting was "100% real."

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์žฌํŒ ์ค‘์— ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒฉ์ด "100% ์‹ค์ œ"์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

On Friday's show, he called the decision "a huge win for the First Amendment."

๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ "์ˆ˜์ •ํ—Œ๋ฒ• ์ œ1์กฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์Šน๋ฆฌ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said he will keep appealing to the state's top court.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฃผ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์— ๊ณ„์† ํ•ญ์†Œํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The parents' lawyer, Mark Bankston, said the decision is "not relevant."

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

Jones still owes more than one billion dollars.

์กด์Šค๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, asked for bankruptcy.

์กด์Šค์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ํ”„๋ฆฌ ์Šคํ”ผ์น˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ฆˆ๋Š” ํŒŒ์‚ฐ์„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They have not paid any money yet.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์•„์ง ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ๋„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Onion, a funny website, is trying 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.

Jones left the Infowars brand in April.

์กด์Šค๋Š” 4์›”์— ์ธํฌ์›Œ์Šค ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ„๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He moved his shows to a new website.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์„ ์˜ฎ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Christopher Mattei is a lawyer from Connecticut. He said this decision does not affect the company's closing process in Texas.

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

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