Don’t Expect Alex Jones’s Comeuppance to Stop Lies

If it hadn’t been so excruciatingly sad, Alex Jones’s defamation trial might have been cathartic.

Mr. Jones, the supplement-slinging conspiracy theorist, was ordered to pay more than $45 million in damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of a 6-year-old who was murdered in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The jury’s verdict came after Mr. Jones was found liable for defaming Mr….