https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgpjyk/alex-jones-and-infowars-were-immediately-sanctioned-five-minutes-into-his-second-damages-trial > Alex Jones and Infowars' second damages trial began in Connecticut today with an immediate—and very significant—ruling against them. Judge Barbara Bellis, who’s presiding over the case, ruled that because Jones and Infowars did not turn over Google Analytics data about the company’s traffic to the plaintiffs, they will not be allowed to make any arguments that they didn’t significantly profit from their Sandy Hook coverage. Jones and other Infowars personalities repeatedly claimed, for years on end, that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax, a position Jones has insisted he no longer holds.  > This is the second damages trial for Jones and Infowars, who were found liable by default in a series of civil cases in Texas and Connecticut late last year. The default ruling means that this trial, like the previous one in Texas, is solely meant to determine the amount of damages Jones and the company will owe. The first trial, with a different set of plaintiffs, ended with Jones and Infowars being ordered to pay a total of $49.3 million in damages. The Connecticut plaintiffs are eight families whose children died at Sandy Hook and an FBI agent who responded to the scene.