On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from far right podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was seeking an appeal of a $1.4 billion judgment against him after he lost a defamation lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting of 2012.

Jones and his legal team submitted a writ of certiorari to the high court last week , arguing that his past defamatory statements were mere “reporting” on the school shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults. The event, Jones wrote in his filing, was “the subject of reporting and debate” and was discussed by “scores of journalists worldwide,” including himself.

Jones also claimed that, were the Supreme Court to decide against hearing his case, it would mean that “all journalists

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