Fringe political broadcaster Alex Jones, who owes more than $1.5 billion in defamation judgments to the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims

But money to the families would fall far short of the more than $1.4 billion they were awarded by juries for Mr. Jones’s lies about the 2012 school massacre.

The far-right conspiracy theorist agreed to sell assets to pay off some of the enormous financial debt he owes to families of the shooting victims, whom he’s lied about for years.