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Re:Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Ho... by Kaze404 on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:03PM (#32364420)
What's the source for the amount of employees? I couldn't find anything about that, let alone specifically 50 or 75.

I also think it's unreasonable to say that in a 50 person company that sells junk and makes YouTube videos that the median salary would be 100k. And even if it was, 50 * 150k is $7.5 million, not "around 10 million". The difference is significant considering we're talking about a $2m fine.

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Re:Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Ho... by dukeofdoom on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:06PM (#32364434)
Alex's sworn testimony during the trial. He was asked how many employees he had, and he gave these estimates. 75 * 150,000 = 11,250000. I quotes 10 million because it was a nice round number.
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Re:Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Ho... by johnmosermd on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:11PM (#32370302)
Accounting records are going to be subpoenaed eventually if this keeps up.
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