The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to a $1.4 billion judgment awarded to families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut over the Infowars website founder's false statements that the 2012 incident was a hoax.

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over a $1.4bn (£1bn) judgment against him after he described the Sandy Hook shooting as a hoax.