Alex jones is an inveterate liar. He had said that he didn't have any tax messages, and he had told the families that their request to see his tax messages couldn't be met because they didn't exist. Here were more than two years worth of hundreds, if not thousands, of alex jones text messengers. And i had several, several different fons toth this number than i did yo, is why he got it first.
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In a landmark ruling, a jury in Texas ordered Alex Jones, America’s most prominent conspiracy theorist, to pay millions of dollars to the parents of a boy killed at Sandy Hook for the damage caused by his lies about the mass shooting.
What is the significance of the trial, and will it do anything to change the world of lies and misinformation?
Guest: Elizabeth Williamson, a feature writer based in the Washington bureau of The New York Times.
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