He is simply a fool that acted like a fool. It seems to me he is, like many on this forum, only able to conceive his believes and is lacking in self awareness. He is the new tool for virtuous signaling.
I do think the judicial outcome was justified and a warning to others profiting from "fake news". Wish Google,Twitter and online forums would backoff policing and let the legal system deal with the Alex Jones of the world. Drawing moral lines not to be crossed is fraught with complexity and I get the difficulty online gatekeepers are facing. Wish impartial algorythms could do the gatekeeping and soon enough this might be possible.