I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.

Look, we've all been waiting to see what lies might cost eventually.

You know what they can actually cost a family?

Maybe a country, maybe a democracy, the toll, the human misery.

But the question for a Texas jury today was what it should cost conspiracy theorist Alex

Jones.

We now have our answer.

Nearly $50 million.

Now, recall, Jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million in what's called

compensatory damages just yesterday.

That to the parents of a beautiful, six-year-old child, a little boy killed in a 2012 attack.

But today, they added $45.2 million on top of that, awarded in punitive or the punishment

side of damages.

Why for spewing lies that have caused unthinkable harm to one family of many families destroyed

by the Sandy Hook massacre?

$50 million.

And that's just one case.

He has two more defamation trials awaiting him.

So this is really far from over for the far right conspiratorial host of Info Wars.

This has really been a case that centered around lies.

And throughout this trial, it felt like so many additional lies kept getting exposed,

like those texts that Jones said he never sent didn't know what they were, never existed.

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