Alex Jones down $4M

[Andrew NDB]

Looked into this a little more. So apparently we're talking about Jones originally talking about this conspiracy theory a grand total of about 24 minutes over a couple shows almost a decade ago before he pretty quickly apologized (apparently 12 times, and long before there was any talk of a lawsuit), said he was wrong and never brought it up ever again. Also, he never brought up any of the parents' names or anything. It was Hillary's people who dredged up those 24 minutes to wave around in the media to try and use it as a smear against Trump, by association, in 2016.

So yeah. There wasn't any damages. Maybe by Hillary's people, for dredging up the aforementioned 24 minutes and making that front page news everywhere and repeatedly.

Originally Posted by Leo656

People sue and win for "intentional infliction of emotional distress" all the time, as well as "instigation of harassment".

See "frivolous lawsuits."

Many of the victims' parents have been stalked and harassed and had violent threats made against them, and when questioned about it the stalkers and harassers always say, with pride, "I heard it on Alex Jones."

Yeah, that's been debunked. He didn't tell or suggest anyone to do anything like that and there aren't any quotes to that end. This is the same as "Trump directed people to storm the capitol!" when there is nothing in what he said to remotely suggest that. Might as well be "the Devil made me do it."

Meaningless.

You can't with a straight face say this guy is somehow blameless.

"Blame" implies there is some act that there would either be responsibility or innocence from. What are we talking about here? Blame in what? Parents claiming they're damaged somehow and need to be multi millionaires now because of what someone said on a podcast known to be nutty for 24 minutes almost ten years ago? Give me a break.