This title is so misleading, "to pay" and "told to pay" are not remotely the same.
There is no chance Alex Jones will pay this amount.
Actual headline is: Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
@dang pls fix.
Actual headline is: Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
@dang pls fix.
In an ideal world the title field would auto-populate from the page title, which would (at least mostly) work fine on BBC News because they're pretty disciplined about keeping page titles and rendered titles on the page in sync. But we don't live in an ideal world: not all sites do that, and there's no hard requirement for them to do so. Plenty will, for example, SEO the heck out of the page title such that it doesn't match the title rendered in the page. You wouldn't want to use the page title as the HN title in these cases.
So we're left with the current situation where an article's title can be updated, but the title on HN isn't. Can't really blame either HN or article submitters for that.