Alex Jones, the US conspiracy theorist who faces multiple defamation lawsuits by parents of victims of a massacre that he called a hoax, has declared bankruptcy for his far-right website Infowars, documents seen on Monday showed. The filing for bankruptcy protection, also known as “Chapter 11”, is intended to freeze the civil court proceedings while recovery plans are prepared for the company, which can continue to operate. The well-known but deeply controversial figure on America’s rightwing fringe and promoter of multiple debunked conspiracy theories has been sued for years by parents of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting…