Six more families have filed suit for defamation against Alex Jones over the radio host’s past suggestion that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and the victims’ families had been actors. All of the new plaintiffs against Jones are family members of individuals killed during the shooting.
“The defendants unethically, oppressively, immorally and unscrupulously developed, propagated, and disseminated outrageous and malicious lies about the plaintiffs and their family members, and the did so for profit,” reads the suit, which elaborates on those charges in detail.
“The defendants’ reprehensible conduct caused substantial injury to the plaintiffs and other consumers that is not outweighed by any countervailing benefit to anyone, and that the plaintiffs themselves could not have reasonably avoided,” the complaint adds.