sandy hook occurred in 2012. in those five years in 2007, there were maybe 5 million tweets sent out her day. in 2012, there were 5 million every second. on facebook when lori was not finding anything into thousand seven, there were 20 million facebook users around the world. five years later when sandy hook happened, there were one billion. you can see the speed and the morale of the that happens -- virality of what happens when that is put out. the possibility of vetting which of these facebook accounts is accurate, which is based on facts, which is just malicious. >> one of the parents, the father who really took action to making sure that these internet trolls were held accountable, what method did he use to make sure that twitter, facebook, and youtube did the right thing? >> lenny who is the father of noah the youngest sandy hook victim had a technology background. he could see that sandy hook was not just one off theory or even something built on gun-control and out of the realistic expectation that gun le

sandy hook shooting occurred in 2012. in those 5 years, in 2,007 there were maybe 5 million tweets sent out a day. in 2,012 there were 5 million every second. on facebook, when lori was not finding anything in 2,007 there were 20 million facebook users around the world. 5 years later when sandy:00 happened there were 1 billion so you can just see the speed and what happens when false theories are put out. the impossibility of vetting which of these facebook accounts is accurate, which ones based on the facts, which is just malicious. >> one of the parents, cantor members name, the father who took action making sure these internet trolls are held accountable, what method did he do to make sure twitter and facebook and youtube did the right thing? >> the father of noah pozner, the younger sandy hook victim had a technology background so he could see that sandy hook was not just a one off theory or even something built on gun control and out of the realistic expectation that gun legislation would result from this tragedy. wh

sandy hook shooting occurred in 2012. ined those five years, in 2007 there were maybe 5 million tweets sent out a day. in 2012 there were 5 million every second. on facebook when lori was not winding anything in 2007 there were 20 million facebook users around the world. five years later when sandy hook happened there were 1 billion so you can just see the speed and the virology that happens when theories are put out and what brendan said the impossibility of betting which of these facebook accounts is accurate, which ones are based on facts and which ones are just malicious? >> the father took action. making sure these internet were held accountable. what method did he use to make sure twitter and facebook did the right thing? >> lenny posner who is the father of noah pozner tujunga sandy hook victim had a that round so he could see that sandy hook was not just a one-off theory is a real of this -- realistic result from this tragedy but he knew a foundational story for how false narratives have spread in our society and

sandy hook shootings occurred in 2012. in those five years in 2007 there were maybe 5 million tweets sent outtoday. in 2012 there were 5 million every second . on facebook when lori was not finding anything in 2007, there were 20 million facebook users around the world. five years later when sandy hook and there were 1billion . so you can just bisee the speed and the virality that happens when false theories are cut out and as brandon said the impossibility of vetting which of these facebook accounts is accurate, which was based on the facts, which one is just malicious. >> one of the parents, ican't remember his name. the father, the one who took action . to make sure that these internet trolls were held accountable for what they were being posting.an what method did he do to make sure that twitter and facebook and youtube did the right thing? >> lenny posner who is the father of noah pozner, the youngest andy who had a ogtechnology background so he could see that sandy hook was not just a one off series or even something

so lenny posner was a sandy hook dad whose son. noah was the youngest sandy hook victim and lenny had a tech background. he was interested in computers when the computer industry was in its infancy. he really knew how the algorithms propel lies on to social media platforms and speed them to millions of people. so he was the one who told me, you know, this isn't a one-off that you know was maybe spurred by sandy hook being a watershed moment in the gun control battle. for example what this really was was a foundational story of how misinformation moves and how people were willing as we say like a group of people we're willing to just deny accepted truth and fact and and science and so it moved from pizza gate to q and on to coronavir. to the to january 6th, and then there we were at the steps of the capital. i mean, i remember i was you know in january of 2021. i remember i was trying to finish you know the last couple of chapters and i was thinking i'm procrastinating little here, but i just want to see what's going on at the capit

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sandy hook's hoax page is gone. what about all this materialsome. >> what was really interesting was the sandy hook hoax facebook page was gone, but when we did ourve first conversation about e book on twitter spaces, the sandy hook hoax twitter account suddenly disappeared. that was two weeks ago. >> yeah. >> so it's pretty amazing how little they do to try and police these platforms. >> and do you give them any excuses why there's so much information? because this happened in covid, it's happened with vaccines, happened with elections, happened january 6th -- >> qanon -- >> pizzagate -- >> other mass shootings. >> exactly. what do you imagine has to happen? do you think things have improved --ei because they're trying to starch their black hats white in this ukraine thing by immediately pulling it down. they didn't wait to be yell at, please, do this. i used to call myself the call center for the these places, the kind of thing where i would call and -- the one i had is when i called sheryl sandberg and said hilla

[applause] and joining him as "the new york times" writer and author of the new book sandy hook an american tragedy and the battle for truth, elizabeth williamson. [applause] welcome to both of you. i want to ask you first just a couple of weeks ago the verdict for alex jones came down. have you spoken to the families and how are they reacting to it? >> i did almost immediately and throughout the trial which i was covering for "the new york times" they were weighing in and they were particularly gratified by the confrontation in the courtroom that scarlet lewis whose son jesse lewis died at the sandy hook had with alex jones for 90 minutes she was on the stand and addressed the responses to every question to him personally and held him to account so that was something that really cheered them. >> how are they coping? i know this is in the end of the line. there's a couple more hearings. how areel they feeling moving forward? >> i hesitate to characterize anyone or describe anyone feeling to the entire group or even to speak for them, but they are absolutely determined to hold alex jones and

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sandy hook, it has got inside job written all over it.completely fake, with actors, in my view, manufactured. all i know is, the official story of sandy hook has more holes in it than swiss cheese. >> for a decade, the far-right conspiracy theorists slash media personality alex jones has been saying that the sandy hook massacre did not actually happen. 26 people died in a connecticut school shooting in 2012. 20 of them were first graders. all of those victims had families. those families, thanks to jones's lies, not only lost a loved one, but have faced a decade of harassment and threats from jones's followers. all while alex jones himself had profited. today, a jury in connecticut unanimously ordered that alex jones and his company paid 900 and $65 million in damages to the families of eight victims from that shooting. that comes on top of the $49 million the jones has already been ordered to pay in a similar case in texas. amazingly, jones was alive on his show when today's verdict came out. despite hearing exactly how he had hurt his f

erica lafferty the daughter of sandy hook's principal. >> the truth matters.. >> the $965 million verdict is the second largest judgment against the infowars host for promoting the lie that sandy hook was a hoax, calling grieving parents like robbie parker who lost his 6-year-old daughter emily hired crisis actor. >> it shouldn't be this hard and this scary. >> while the victim was revealed jones was on air blocking what he called a show trial. >> never said their name or who they are. >> the month on trial featured dramatic testimony about the vicious harassments sandy hook families have endured. >> it is a constant fear. >> mark barden telling the jury how jones' fathers violated the grave of his son daniel. >> to hear that people were desecrating it, and urinating on it and threatening to dig it up. >> jones' attorney vowing to appeal. >> certainly, it is more than we expected. that's an understatement. but we will flex florida to an appeal in this case. candidly from start to finish, the fix was in, in this case. >> after years of false claims, the summer

alice, jones he was not just telling folks about sandy hook. six committee subpoena jones over his efforts to spread misinformation out the 2020 election as well. the committee highlighted this video of jones during a hearing that took place last summer. >> it saturday. december 19th, the year is 2020. and one of the most historic events in american history has just taken place. president trump, and the early morning hours today tweeted that he wants the american people to march on washington d. c. on january 6th, 2021. he is now calling on we the people to take action and show our numbers. >> tomorrow at 1 pm eastern, the committee will hold its ninth public hearing, aides telling nbc news the panel present, quote, more sweeping view of what happened before, during, and after the january 6th attack. with a particular focus on the former president's state of mind and his involvement in these events. the washington post reports that the panel will also highlight newly-obtained secret service records showing donald trump himself has repeatedly wa

alex jones to pay almost a $1000000000.00 to people who suffered from his false claims that the sandy hook, school shooting never happened. ah, diamond yoko mckinnon. thanks so much for being with us. russia has launched an air offensive on ukraine for the 4th straight day. this time target saying the key region with iranian made kamikaze for people in the ukrainian capital woke to the sounds of air raid sirens early on. thursday. officials say, emergency services are assessing the damage. the attack comes just hours after the united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's attempts to illegally annex for regions of ukraine. and funding for child is al correspondent in ukraine, and she joins me now from keith morning, finding other been fresh air raid alerts in cave and more russian attacks we're hearing. are people in keep assuming that this is moscow's response to the you and vote was very difficult to look into the had of letting me put in why he's doing watch when abs certainly pretty much every day. now actually by getting you cities, every dollars can keep cd

. >> alex jones ordered to pay nearly one billion dollars for profiting off of sandy hook wise. tonight, connecticut senator chris murphy and what this means for these families and ben collins on where the alex jones industrialized goes from here. plus, senator elizabeth warren on her midterm message to democrats and a special programming note for viewers in the new york area. when all in starts right now. we have >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tomorrow the january six committee will be holding what maybe, a little unclear but maybe their final hearing. they will be apparently divulging new evidence showing how the ex president directed the attempted coup. washington post reports that the committee quote is expected to highlight newly-obtained secret service records showing how trump was ribbed levy alerted to bloom violence that day, and he still sought to stop the conflict. that includes internal emails that further buttress accounts about staff members warning trump about the risk and then the reality of violence that day as he continued to press nervous secr

i said, yeah, he died at sandy hook. and she said, you're lying. >> reporter: during the trial, jones took the stand only one time, on september 22nd, and got in a heated exchange with the plaintiffs' attorney. >> today a jury representing our community and our nation rendered a historic verdict. a verdict against alex jones elis and their poisonous spread and a verdict for truth and for our common humanity. >> reporter: apps jones' defense team opted not to cross examine him, and jones never took the stand again during the trial. his attorneys saying this after the verdict today. >> certainly it's more than we expected. that's an understatement. but we look very much forward to an appeal in this case. >> reporter: even as the verdict came down, jones was on his show essentially mocking the verdict, saying he has no money. his attorney says they are going to appeal this decision. the plaintiffs' attorney says they are going to fight this to the very end so they get their machine. the plaintiffs are also going to receive punitive damages, however, t

he reacted in real time appearing to mock the sandy hook families h take a hook. >> the judge looks pleased00 million. it's a joke. they believe they're getting this money. they believe all their own stuff. $57 million? $20 million. $100 million. you get $100 million. you get $50 million happening. ain't going to happening. we don't have money. we're not scared, not going to go away and not going to stop. for hundreds of thousands of dollars i can keep them in court for years. i can appeal this stuff. we can stand up against this travesty it's a joke. >> simply loathe some. as you heard there, jones suggested his victims won't see any money. he placed his company free speech systems into bankruptcy with sandy hook families challenged in court as an attempt by jones to avoid paying the damages he owes. joining us now, luke broadwater. alex jones, of course, hard to even know what to say about the reaction there. scrutiny over the january 6th capital attack. remind viewers what his role was during the events before and during insurrection? >> yes. i mean, i think you saw yesterday, alex jones

sandy hook occurred in 2012.those five years in 2007, there were maybe 5 million tweets sent out her day. in 2012, there were 5 million every second. on facebook when lori was not finding anything into thousand seven, there were 20 20 million facebook users around the world but five years later when sandy hook happened there was 1 billion. so you can just see the virality that happens. and the impossibility of defending all of these facebook accounts is accurate, which one is malicious. >> one of the parents, the father took action to make sure that these internet trolls were held accountable. what method did he do to make sure twitter and facebook and youtube did the right thing? >> the father of the youngest sandy hook victim had the technology background so he could see that sandy hawk was not just a one-off theory or even built on gun control as a realistic expectation that it wouldwo result from the tragedy. but what he knew this was a foundational story and how it spread in society and a predictor for where

a previous jury in texas ordered he pay $50 million to a sandy hook family.g this trial in connecticut, where the shootings occurred, father mark barden was among those parents who testified about the torment he endured from jones's followers. >> this was horror beyond anything we could ever imagine, trying to deal with -- trying to deal with the fact that our little boy had just been shot to death in his first grade classroom. i had a picture of one of my little days at home with daniel, you know, just for fun. we had a little bath in the kitchen sink, and i had taken a picture of it because it was adorable. and somebody came on the website saying that that picture was actually -- excuse me -- but that was a picture of daniel after i had dismembered him and killed him myself. and that picture was me mocking everyone else with the fact that i had murdered my son and taken a picture of him in the sink. you can't make this up. somebody did. but this is what i was trying to -- we were all trying to deal with. stephanie: barden's son, daniel, was among the 20 fir

pay $965 million in damages to several families, after years of jones' lies about the massacre at sandy hook elementary. 20 first graders were killed. six staffers were killed, too. lawyers had argued jones used those lies to create profits. tonight, the question, will the is any of alex jones' millions protected? eva pilgrim reporting. >>> also tonight, reported tornadoes as we come on the air. the warnings and watches right now. reported twisters near milwaukee. this system moving into the northeast tomorrow. washington, d.c. to philadelphia, new york to boston. and rob marciano timing it out. >>> the war in ukraine tonight. and you'll see the new and h harrowing images right here. a family rescued following a russian missile attack. and tonight, who vladimir putin has now arrested for that bridge explosion. ian pannell in ukraine. and here in the u.s. tonight, two americans on their capture in ukraine by russian-backed forces. they describe what they say was done to them in captivity. whit johnson with the interview. >>> tonight, two navy officers and a doctor reprimanded in the ket of a

we'll be joined by the lawyer that won the case for the sandy hook families. we'll be talking with the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her race is super close. one of handful of contests that can determine senate control. democrats understand that. they're making a huge last minute investment in her candidacy. sherry beasley will join us later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight. donald trump's mar-a-lago document scandal. in august, when the fbi executed a search warrant at trump's beach club, they found over 100 classified documents and 11,000 other documents stashed all over the place. when justice department officials visited a couple months before. a trump lawyer told them all documents trump carted down from the white house were kept in a basement storm room. and that was bad enough given the storage room was beneath a public area of mar-a-lago and the sensitive documents were protected by nothing but a locked closet door. but when the fbi searched the club later, they found several batches of documents in trump's

i said, yeah, he died at sandy hook. and she said, you're lying. that didn't happen. >> during the trial jones took the stand only one time, on september 22nd, and got in a heated exchange with the plaintiff's attorney. >> today a jury representing our community and our nation rendered an historic verdict, a verdict against alex jones's lies and their poisonous spread and a verdict for truth and for our common humanity. >> jones defense team opted not to cross examine him and jones never took the stand again during the trial. his attorney saying this after the verdict was read today. >> certainly it's more than we expected. that's an understatement, but we looked very much forward to an appeal in this case. >> reporter: even as the verdict came down alex jones on his show mocking the verdict saying he has no money. his attorney says they plan to appeal this decision. the plaintiff's attorney says they are going to fight this to the very end. now the plaintiffs are going to also be awarded punitive damages but the amount is going to be determined at

the hearts and the souls of the people in newton in the sandy hook area. so i'm guessing that that had something to do with why the verdict is so large. and what's the big picture here did is childs and the result of these foul set. any kind of precedent will have a deterrent effect on other can specify i think that you hit the nail on the head with deterrent effect. this message is so loud and so clear that i think it will deter, are not only individuals who have these cookie conspiracy theories, but the networks that promote these theories, they are not immune either. and there are some lawsuits now pending against a few of these networks in the, in the u. s. not necessarily about this issue, but about the voting. a conspiracy issue that president trump, former president trump is champion. but this is a message that jury say, look, we live in a free country where there's freedom of speech and freedom of expression. but what you don't have the right to do is lie and maliciously horen people with your lies that is actionable. so i think people will think t

joy in connecticut has awarded nearly 1 billion dollars to families of sandy hook victims. they sued conspiracy theorist alex jones over his lies about the 2012 elementary school massacre. alex jones was not in the courtroom when the decision came down today, his attorney said he does intend to appeal. this is the second to judgment against the right wing host of info wars earlier this year, a texas jury ordered jones to pay one sandy hook family. nearly 50 million dollars to settle their defamation lawsuit during the years of jones's lies about sandy hook. family say in addition to their grief, they were threatened and terrorized by people who believed jones. there is still one more case pending against him. jones's company has already filed for bankruptcy protection coming up just a few weeks before election day. today, we're taking a look at the race for state controller. we're going hear one-on-one from. >> the 2 candidates running for that seat about their goals for a fiscally strong california. the open chamber of commerce is calling on the city to provide more money

unanimous verdict the jury declaring alex jones must pay $965 million to the families of eight sandy hook victims and an fbi agent emotional relief in the court as the verdict was read >> after almost a decade of press and messages from conspiracy theorists led by jones, this is a moment years in the making >> reporter: jones was not in the courtroom for the verdict but immediately reacted on his online show calling the attorneys for the victims' families ambulance chasers and mocking the verdict. >> 57 million, 20 million, 50 million, 80 million, 100 million. blah, blah you get a million, you get 100 million, you get 50 million >> reporter: 26 people were killed in the sandy hook elementary school, including 20 first graders. several family members testified in the connecticut courtroom about intense harassment, death d rape threats >> it is a constant fear >> reporter: from followers of conspiracy theorist alex jones who claimed for years the massacre was a hoax mark barton described the emotional stress of learning jones' followers even focused on his son daniel's grave site >> to hear

in 2012, a gun man killed 20 children and 6 adults at sandy hook elementary school. after giving weeks of testimony and years of battling lies about their family members last to gun violence, a resolution in the fight for justice official ladies and gentlemen of the jury. do you all agree? this is robert. yes. repeatedly right wing conspiracy theorist and host alex jones has called the 2012 sandy hook elementary school mass shooting over public. oh, he said the victims weren't really victims at all, but paid actors being used by democrats to a road gun ownership rights. in the time that followed jones listeners repeatedly harassed and threatened sandy hook survivors and threw it off. victims families leaned on each other. this is not a trial. i let my voice be taken away from me in my power be taken away from me at the expense of my daughter in the expense of my family. so i have to thank them for helping me to strengthen the truth matters. in those who profit off of other people's pain and trauma will pay for what they have done. consequences for his decades old lie

jones listeners repeatedly harassed and threatened sandy hook survivors. and through it all victims families leaned on each other. this is not a trial. i let my voice be taken away from me in my power be taken away from me at the expense of my daughter in the expense of my family. so i have to thank them for helping me gently strengthen the truth matters in those who profit off of other people's pain and trauma will pay for what they have done. consequences for his decades old lies will cost jones nearly $1000000000.00. an emotional pain and suffering. jones says he now believes the mash shooting was real and that he was merely questioning what happened. his lawyer says the verdict threatens constitutional rights, wages, lawyers, my heart goes out to the families. we live in divided times, or they've been weaponized and used for political purposes. i'm in this country in my view, and today is a very, very, very dark gave a speech, the other family, but their flight might not be over. jones. his vow to appeal the judgment anisette, his company's bankruptcy

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theorist alex jones to pay almost $1 billion to families who suffered from his false claim the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. ♪ >> this is al jazeera live from london. the u.n. general assembly overwhelmingly votes to condemn russia's move to annex four regions of ukraine. >> we will do as much as it takes for as long as it tak. ukraine's allies promised new air defenses at a nato mting. the latest russian airstrike kills seven women in a market. iran's security forces use tear gas to break up the latest protest. the supreme leader has dismissed them as scattered rights by his country's enemies. ♪ a jury in the u.s. has ordered right-wing conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay 965 million dollars in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 sandy hook school massacre was a hoax. the families of eight victims have been seeking at least $550 million in the three-week defamation trial in connecticut. just last month, a jury in texas ordered jones to pay $50 million to other families. the radio host, founder of the website infowars, claimed the student -- shooting was staged as a plot to

that's what a jury has ordered conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay for telling lies about the sandy hook school shooting, claiming parents of the children shot were paid actors. so will the family. we see any of that money. breaking overnight ukraine's capital region, waking up to a raid sirens once again this time kamikaze drone, striking critical infrastructure facilities and now two americans captured by the russians while fighting in ukraine, giving their first tv interview, describing the torture they endured in captivity. winter blues a new prediction about how much more you'll have to pay this winter to heat your home reeling in a cheating scandal. the fishermen now facing felony charges, accused of stuffing their fish at a prestigious tournament, and later the new battle over mac and cheese. from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good thursday morning, everyone we want to begin with new details overnight from the investigation into former president trump's handling of classified documents . trump employee reportedly told federal agents that trump directly ordere

my family had not lived in sandy hook we were there for less than one year before emily was killed.lity to establish any roots. we became very close with these families while we still live, there in the sense that we have a common denominator of the tragedy, being able to talk to somebody who understood what that level of loss felt like. and being we moving away, i never got a chance to know these families on a personal level, never got a chance to know their history. during the trial, i got to hear about them. more importantly, i got to hear about their kids, their moms, their wives. what beautiful people they were. i got to understand who they were better. and i know we connected with them on a more personal level outside of the tragedy, it was really important for me and my wife. something i will cherish and take with me from the trial as well. >> can i ask you, robbie, about emily? and what memory most brings a smile to your heart? >> let me try to pick one. one of the thing that really demonstrates -- we were at the boston marathon at 2012. emily's grandpa run in the marathon.

theorist alex jones ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars for spreading falsehoods about the sandy hook> jones was not in the courtroom for the verdict but immediately reacted on his online show, calling the attorneys for the victims' families "ambulance chasers" and mocking the verdict. >> $120 million. >> yeah! whoooo! 57 million! 20 million! 50 million! 80 million! 100 million! blah blah. you get a million! you get 100 million! you get a 50 million! they actually believe they are getting this money. they believe all their own stuff. >> trevor: what a dick. i used to watch american movies as a kid and i used to think the bad guys were fake and i came to this country and the bad guys are in their lair, like, you have not seen the last of me. [evil laughing] and for the parents and the first responders of sandy hook, when he accused them of faking the shooting, alex jones has been ordered to pay $965 million. [cheers and applause] yeah, which is a huge amount of money. you know you [bleep] up when even your great, great grandkids will have to declare bankruptcy. he's basically got milli

alex jones to pay almost a $1000000000.00 to people who suffered from his false claims that the sandy hook school shooting never happened. plus the film world ads, it's voice and some graphic imagery to the protests in iran at the death of a young woman held by the iranian morality. police ah, i manuscripts, mccann, and thanks so much for being with us. russia has launched an air offensive on ukraine for the 4th straight day. this time targeting the key region with iranian made kamikaze drones. people in the ukrainian capital woke to the sounds of air raid sirens early on thursday. the president's office said critical infrastructure was damaged in the attack. there has been no comment on potential casualties. now, the attack comes just hours after the united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's attempts to illegally annex for regions of ukraine. the resolution was supported by $143.00 countries, while $35.00 states abstained, including china and india. draft resolution. i asked, he delivered that fanny fletcher, his and keith. if people there see these latest r

that the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. the money's compensation for relatives of the 26 victims and an f. b, i officer who was called to the scene. article hate has the latest latent job in the jury. please listen to your verdict as it has been recorded. they have been through so much the emotions of this moment clear in the court room. the man who publicly denied their children were slaughtered in their classroom, who called them actors, and unleashed his followers to harass them with death threats. that man, alex jones will pay for what he lands damages past future $25000000.00 be a most little disrupt them. the past and future. there are 2000000 600000 jones is already facing one judgment for $45000000.00 for this conduct. but this was by far the biggest penalty, $965000000.00 to the families of h students and staff that were killed in their sandy, her classroom. and in f b i agent who was also targeted by jones. i can really just tell them what we are able to accomplish. to simply tell the truth. it shouldn't be this h

conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay more than $900 million to the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. urgent action is required to reverse biodiversity destruction — the stark warning from the world wide fund for nature after wildlife populations decline by almost 70% in 50 years. have you wrecked the economy, prime minister? time for another u—turn? the british prime minister insists she won't cut public spending, to pay for her multibillion—pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we will do everything we can as fast as we can to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. and scientists in australia teach lab—grown brain cells to play an iconic video game. we find out how and why. live from our studio in singapore. hello and welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the m

alex jones to pay almost a $1000000000.00 to families who suffered from his false claim that the sandy hook school was shooting, was a hoax. the me this is out there in life and also coming up the un general assembly overwhelmingly votes to condemn rushes, move to an x for regions of ukraine's class, will do as much as it takes for as long as it takes ukraine's analyzed commerce new air defenses. to nato meeting, as the latest russian asteroid kills women in the market, ha, security forces use together to break up the native protein, which the supreme leader has dismissed as scattered, right? planned by countries, enemies, ah, jury in the u. s. as ordered right wing conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay $965000000.00 in damages are to falsely claiming the 2012 sandy hook school massacre was a hoax. the families of 8 victims had been seeking at least $550000000.00 in the 3 week defamation trial in connecticut. just last month, a jury in texas order jones to pay $50000000.00 to other families. drones or radio host who's founder of the website info was claimed for years at the school shooting

jones already owe who is sandy hook families more than $45 million in a separate lawsuit.ning us now is erica lafferty, her mother, dawn, was the principal at sandy hook elementary. she confronted the shooter and was killed shortly after he entered the school. erica, thanks so much for being with us this morning. we really appreciate it. you were one of the family members awarded some money in this judgment here. what did it feel like to hear the news yesterday? >> i think i'm still a little bit in shock. the way the jury so bravely listened to hours and days of testimony from my family and other families and bill aldenburg was nothing short of heroic. them coming back with such a hard-hitting message that these hate, lies, spir theories, and threats are not going to be tolerated is something that i am so deeply grateful to them for. >> well, you've been mourning your brave, brave mother who stepped in and confronted the shooter that day. you've had to spend the last ten years also fighting off in many ways these conspiracy theorists who pursue you and the other sandy hook

orders conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay over $900 million to the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. wildlife populations have declined by almost 70% — the stark warning from a world wide fund for nature investigation. reporter: have you wrecked the economy, prime minister? - time for another u—turn? is it all going to plan? the british prime minister insists she won't cut public spending to pay for her multi—billion pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we're going to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. it's newsday. i want to bring you some news that's just come through in the last hour from the us, where a usjury in connecticut has ruled that the conspiracy theorist alexjones must payjust shy of $1 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the ma

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only to victimize the, the parents and, and affect those affected by the murderous rampage and sandy hook. but he used it to victimize, the americans who, who he fraud, who we, he, defrauded by feeding their sense of abandonment and betrayal by the system and making it make, trying to legitimated in this horrific way. he related to this, mister jones is just one individual in an information landscape rife with false heads about a range of things from the cave in 1900 pandemic, to start in election, so on and so forth. to what extent will this their day and other that it's like this quell that miss information and the spread if misinformation now i don't do prediction, i'm not in the prediction business, but i can explain why it is vital that it does. it's vital that it does qual, a qual, this we needed to because the way democracy works is we all have to have a shared reality and common reactions to that shared reality. so we can discuss them together. if we can't have common rea, if we can agree on the truth, and then have reactions to that truth, that, that, and how can we formulate tog

i said, yeah, he died at sandy hook. and she said, you're lying.ir attorneys were visibly emotional when the jury's decision was read. one of them, robbie parker, the father of 6-year-old victim, emily. >> the payoff for me was being able to take emily's story back. being able to, throughout all of this mess, remind people about who she was and what she meant to me and her mom and her sisters. it's not just the families on this lawsuit that are victims of alex jones. there are numberless amount of people in this country, even his own listeners that have fallen victim to alex jones. so i think this number represents more than just us. >> jones did not attend the verdict. instead, streaming it live on his info wars show. >> defamation, $24 million -- >> yeah! >> mocking the decision and using it to fund raise. >> i don't have money so it's a big joke. >> money is all that alex jones cares about, and the only way to start to explain how he's made us feel is to hit him in the pocket. >> it's unclear when or how much of the money the plaintiffs will ult

a $1000000000.00 bill for us radio show host alex jones for his false claim that the sandy hook masika was a hoax. and how the fatal shooting of an innocent black man by police in london has brought anger and another loss of confidence in the fort general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's move to annex parts of ukraine. a $143.00 countries, both in favor of the resolution that reaffirms ukraine, sovereignty and territorial integrity, only 4 nations, but russia, syria, nicaragua, north korea, and better. bruce $35.00, abstained, including china and india. saudi arabia accused by the us of siding with russia, the opec oil cuts voted against moscow. kristen swimming as more from the un in new york. while this is the 4th vote in the general assembly, since russia invaded ukraine on the situation in ukraine, in this one past, with the most support of any of the prior resolutions, it's an attempt by ukraine and it's backers to keep russia under pressure. keep the spotlight on the country and show that it's isolated on the international stage. there were some abstentions 3

theorist alex jones must pay almost a $1000000000.00 in damages to families of the victim, to the sandy hook school shooting compensation for the la he'd promoted for years, claiming the 2012 masika was hooks and western allies have pledged to give new air defense systems to ukraine as quickly as possible, the promise was made by nato defense ministers in brussels. russia has intensified it strikes in recent days coming at least 26 people. since monday, european union energy ministers have again failed to agree measures to tackle high gas prices. 15 member states want the price of wholesale gas to be kept across the block. but others want different strategies, including a limit on gas consumption and subsidy packages for businesses and consumers. europe and commissions proposals are due to be unveiled next week. somebody came the husband following the meeting from berlin. the interesting thing coming from this missing is the unity of purpose that pretty much everyone involved in the meeting said that they wanted to bring to this problem. they all want to try to resolve the issue. they want s