Infowars host Alex Jones has hit out at the "stunning" decision by a judge to rule him legally responsible in two lawsuits for damages in connection to false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued a rare default judgment against Jones and his InfoWars site for repeatedly failing to comply with requests to produce documents related to the hoax theories he repeatedly made about the shooting, which left 26 children dead.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Jones frequently claimed that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a hoax and the murdered children's families were so-called "crisis actors."