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The court reduced Infowars founder Alex Jones's $50 million fine to $1.5 million because he wrongly called the Newtown shooting a hoax.

The court reduced Infowars founder Alex Jones's $50 million fine to $1.5 million because he wrongly called the Newtown shooting a hoax.

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August 21st, 2026

The court reduced Infowars founder Alex Jones's $50 million fine to $1.5 million because he wrongly called the Newtown shooting a hoax.

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A Texas appeals court cut a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to $1.5 million.

德克萨斯州一家上诉法院针对Infowars创始人亚历克斯·琼斯5000万美元判决削减至150万美元

Jones had wrongly claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

琼斯错误声称2012年桑迪胡克小学枪击案一场骗局

The ruling does not affect the $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut. But it is a legal win for him.

该裁决不影响康涅狄格州琼斯12.5亿美元判决对他而言一次法律胜利

The appeals court said that Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis did not prove that the harassment from Jones's statements was enough to go beyond Texas's $750,000 limit for each person.

上诉法院认为桑迪胡克家长尼尔·赫斯林斯卡利特·刘易斯未能证明琼斯的说法所煽动的骚扰足以让他们超出德克萨斯州每位原告75万美元赔偿上限

The trial judge allowed the parents to seek more than the limit. This was ruled a mistake.

初审法官允许家长寻求超出上限的赔偿被裁定为错误

Heslin and Lewis's six-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, died in the attack.

赫斯林刘易斯6岁儿子杰西·刘易斯在袭击中遇难

Jones admitted in court that the shooting was "100 percent real" and that lying was wrong.

琼斯在庭审中承认枪击案百分之百真实”,承认撒谎是错误的

But on his Friday live show, he called the ruling a "big victory for the First Amendment." He said he would keep appealing.

在周五的直播节目中该裁决是“第一修正案的巨大胜利”,并表示将继续上诉

His lawyer, Andino Reynal, predicted after the verdict that the amount would drop to $1.5 million.

他的律师安迪诺·雷纳尔在判决后预测金额将降至150万美元

Mark Bankston, the lawyer for Heslin and Lewis, called the ruling "irrelevant." Jones still faces over one billion dollars in liability.

赫斯林和刘易斯的律师马克·班克斯顿该裁决“无关紧要”,因为琼斯仍面临超过10亿美元的赔偿责任

Jones and his company have filed for bankruptcy, and the related legal process is still ongoing.

琼斯和他的公司已申请破产相关法律程序仍在进行中

The satirical website The Onion also moved to take over Jones's Infowars platform. It plans to turn it into a parody site.

讽刺网站The Onion也采取行动接管琼斯的Infowars平台将其变成恶搞网站

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