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Court reduces Infowars' Alex Jones $50 million verdict to $1.5 million for calling Newtown school shooting a hoax.

Court reduces Infowars' Alex Jones $50 million verdict to $1.5 million for calling Newtown school shooting a hoax.

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August 21st, 2026

Court reduces Infowars' Alex Jones $50 million verdict to $1.5 million for calling Newtown school shooting a hoax.

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A Texas appeals court on Friday cut a $50 million damages ruling 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 ruling made 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 show enough evidence. The evidence needed to show that the harassment from Jones's claims went over the limit. That limit was $750,000 per victim under Texas state 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 decided that the lower court wrongly 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 who died 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 called this ruling 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 show, he called the decision a "huge victory for the First Amendment." He said he will 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.

Mark Bankston, the parents' lawyer, dismissed the ruling as "irrelevant." He said Jones still owes more than one billion dollars.

ํ•™๋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 does 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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