A jury in the US has ordered right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay almost a billion dollars in damages, after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

Al Jazeera's @Patty Culhane reports from Washington, DC.

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