Alex Jones wasn't careful with his wording and is clearly liable for some small instances of defamation, such as declaring specific people involved by name a "crisis actor". Yet, this case went so much farther than that, ridiculously finding all of his reporting and questioning to be defamation, and is a clear attack on journalism. The trial for anyone who followed, was an absolute joke, where he was banned from making any meaningful defense and refused reasonable discovery from the start.

No mater how much you hate Alex Jones or think his words required accountability, justice was clearly not served with the joke of a trial, leaving it a bitter win for even those who supported this case against him. It is scary to watch our legal system so frequently lose all integrity and become an arm of attacking descent. We've seen that no high profile court cases follow the wide spread and well established standards of just a few years ago. The impeachment show-trial, where projecting motivations with a forgone conclusion is all that is needed, seems to have bled over to our actual court systems, replacing their blind justice traditions with populism and emotional standards.

Alex Jones is worth only about $40 Million, and his companies, who are insulated if not specific defendants in the civil suits, are only worth a little more than a couple hundred million total. Yet, the joke trial has sentenced him to around $1B between multiple defamation accusers, claiming Jone's words caused them that much losses and damages.

Alex Jones is a small Radio host, supported by selling merch, and revenues less than some social media personalities. He's not the head of some huge corporate lie machine backed by billionaires; instead those lie and defame with impunity, as we've seen NYT's weasel out of falsely attacking political opponents as murders and a chorus of colluding corporations trumpeting in unison the megaphone-effect that a candidate was a Russian asset, in efforts to manipulate an election.