Infowars has earned most of its revenue from direct sales of products pitched by jones, which initially consisted of videos and later included survivalist products and branded merchandise, but shifted primarily to dietary supplements by the late 2010s The order comes after a series of legal setbacks for the families of sandy hook victims as they tried to collect money owed to them by the conspiracy theorist alex jones. A judge in a texas ruled that infowars can be sold to help pay the more than $1 billion alex jones owes the families of sandy hook shooting victims. Alex jones is an american political commentator whose website infowars is a major source of conspiracy theories Jones was ordered to pay $1.4 billion in defamation lawsuits over his claims that the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. It was founded in 1999, and operated under free speech systems.
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