HONR Network Timeline: Sandy Hook Hoaxes, Harassment and Legal Battles
Articles List
A dated collection of news coverage about the Sandy Hook hoax campaign, online harassment, and HONR Network’s legal battles against hoaxers.
Nov 1 2026
Pozner v. Fetzer: The “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook” Case
Sandy Hook father Lenny Pozner won a $1,107,395.13 judgment against James Fetzer, whose book "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook" falsely read more

Oct 30 2026
Sandy Hook Families v. Alex Jones: Defamation Case Explained
Alex Jones, the host of InfoWars, spent years telling his audience that the Sandy Hook shooting, the December 14, 2012 read more

Oct 23 2026
The Sandy Hook Hoax: What the Evidence and Courts Show
Short answer: the “Sandy Hook hoax” is a lie. On the morning of December 14, 2012, a gunman forced his read more

Oct 23 2026
How Sandy Hook Parents Fought Online Harassment, and How HONR Helps
The HONR Network was founded in 2014 by Lenny Pozner, the father of Noah Pozner, who was killed at Sandy read more

Jul 17 2025
A Sandy Hook survivor looks back and ahead as she graduates college
Connecticut Public profiled Sandy Hook survivor Lenie Urbina as she graduated from UConn, including how she became a focus of read more

Feb 6 2025
Crisis Actors
The American Prospect examined how Alex Jones and his companies turned to Chapter 11 bankruptcy as Sandy Hook families pressed read more

Dec 14 2024
After losing his son at Sandy Hook, Lenny Pozner spent ten years fighting fake news
Jacques Besnard — Edited by Sophie Gindensperger —December 14, 2022 at 7:30 a.m. Ten years to the day after the shooting, some Americans read more

Mar 26 2024
A new HBO documentary shows how Alex Jones’ lies are still ruining lives
An MSNBC opinion piece on HBO's documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” looked at the lasting toll of Jones' lies read more

Feb 1 2024
Sandy Hook at 10: Tragedy, conspiracy theories and justice (Part 2)
This episode of “Is that a Fact?” is part two of a two-part episode marking the 10th anniversary of the read more

Dec 14 2022
A decade after Sandy Hook, progress through the pain
On the tenth anniversary of the shooting, the News Literacy Project spoke with author Elizabeth Williamson and Lenny Pozner about read more

Aug 24 2022
After Alex Jones’ First ‘Surreal’ Trial, Sandy Hook Parents Targeted By Infowars Still Seek Justice
Vice's Motherboard spoke with Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa after the first damages trial against Alex Jones, describing read more

Aug 18 2022
One family’s epic fight against Sandy Hook conspiracies, Alex Jones, and those who deny their son ever lived
Noah Pozner Loved His Family, And Batman, And Was The Youngest Victim Of The Newtown School Shooting In 2012. His read more

Mar 17 2022
Revealed: The Powerful D.C. Attorney Quietly Defending Alex Jones Against Sandy Hook Parents
In a Rolling Stone piece drawn from her book, Elizabeth Williamson reported that, according to court documents, Washington lawyer Mark read more

Mar 11 2022
After the horror of Sandy Hook, an assault on truth began
Barbara Demick reviews Elizabeth Williamson's book, which she calls "meticulously reported," and says Lenny Pozner comes through as its central read more

Mar 9 2022
Sandy Hook ushered in new era of conspiracy and lies, author finds
On NPR's Fresh Air, author Elizabeth Williamson talked about how the Sandy Hook shooting ushered in a new era of read more

Mar 7 2022
Sandy Hook took place as ‘alternative facts’ muscled out objective truth
NPR reviewed Elizabeth Williamson's book “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth,” calling Lenny Pozner “the unlikely read more

Mar 7 2022
The Second Tragedy of Sandy Hook
Slate's review of Elizabeth Williamson's book “Sandy Hook” focused on the harassment campaigns that followed the shooting and on the read more

Feb 10 2022
The Sandy Hook Father Who Refused to Let Alex Jones Win
From the big lie to Bill Gates’s supposed Covid vaccine microchips, the internet loves a conspiracy theory. In this conversation, Kara read more

Sep 30 2021
Alex Jones Just Lost 2 Sandy Hook Cases
HuffPost reported that Texas judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued default judgments against Alex Jones in two Sandy Hook defamation cases, read more

Mar 7 2021
La Presse – Defamation on the Internet – Web of Lies
Journalist: Emilie Bilodeau Source Link: La Presse March 7, 2021 A Brossard family victim of repeated attacks by a woman read more
Feb 21 2021
Buzzfeed – “Mark Changed The Rules”: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures
Facebook’s rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and read more

Jan 27 2021
Rioters Followed a Long Conspiratorial Road to the Capitol
Journalist: Elizabeth Williamson Source Link: New York Times (archived copy) January 27, 2021 When Brendan Hunt was arrested and charged read more

Jan 25 2021
After Alex Jones loses appeal, a Sandy Hook father looks forward to ‘face to face’ meeting in court
Journalist: Rob Ryser Source Link: CNT January 25, 2021 Two fathers who lost children in the Sandy Hook massacre spoke read more

Jan 3 2021
When online harassment moves into the real world
After a gunman murdered Lenny Pozner’s child, conspiracy theorists relentlessly attacked Pozner online. Then they came for him in person. read more

Jan 3 2021
INTERVIEW – 60 Minutes: What is Section 230 and Why Do People Want it Repealed? 
January 3, 2021 Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 protects internet platforms from liability for what users read more

Nov 20 2020
For the Father of a Sandy Hook Victim, Conspiracy Theories Are Much More Than Just Internet Fodder
Journalist: Ruth Bashinsky Source Link: Inside Edition November 21, 2020 The father of one of the 20 elementary school children read more

Sep 22 2020
He was shot in Kenosha, then received threats – a frightening pattern after high-profile incidents
Journalist: Gina Barton Source Link: USA Today September 22, 2020 Gaige Grosskreutz wasn’t even out of the hospital when his phone read more
Aug 1 2020
Successfully Blocked Prolific Hoaxer from Hiding His Crimes
On December 14, 2012, Noah Pozner became the youngest victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, which read more

Jul 28 2020
DOCUMENTARY – FRONTLINE: UNITED STATES OF CONSPIRACY
July 28, 2020 Frontline examines Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories. Source Link: Frontline PBS THIS SANDY HOOK FATHER LIVES read more

Jul 27 2020
Judgment against James H Fetzer Increased to $1.1M
On July 27, 2020, the Circuit Court for Dane County, Wisconsin entered an amended judgment for Leonard (Lenny) Pozner against read more

Jan 27 2020
A NOTORIOUS SANDY HOOK TORMENTOR IS ARRESTED IN FLORIDA
Journalist: Elizabeth Williamson Source Link: NY Times (archived copy) January 27, 2020 Wolfgang Halbig, who has falsely accused the families read more

Jan 16 2020
ORGANIZATION SCRUBS INTERNET OF HARASSING POSTS, HELPS FAMILY OF SHANANN WATTS
Journalist: Marc Sallinger Source Link: 9News January 16, 2020 https://www.9news.com/embeds/video/73-a7b4b446-7de6-46d9-93d1-92b2aba05b7c/iframe For the victims of some of the worst crimes and mass read more
Dec 14 2019
NPR: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED – HIS SON WAS KILLED AT SANDY HOOK. THEN CAME THE ONLINE HARASSMENT
Journalist: Michel Martin Source Link: NPR December 14, 2019 Transcript: MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: On this day seven years ago, a read more

Dec 12 2019
Battling Hoaxers in Court, Sandy Hook Families Replay a Tragedy
The Times follows Lenny Pozner, the first Sandy Hook family member to take hoaxers to court, as he testifies in read more

Oct 17 2019
Father of Jewish Sandy Hook victim awarded $450,000 in defamation suit
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that a Wisconsin jury awarded Lenny Pozner $450,000 in his defamation case against James Fetzer, read more

Oct 17 2019
Conspiracy theorist ordered to pay Sandy Hook father $450,000 for claiming shooting was fake
WBAL-TV reported on the $450,000 that a Wisconsin jury ordered James Fetzer to pay Lenny Pozner over a book that read more

Oct 17 2019
Dad of Sandy Hook victim says he “shamed” big tech companies to fight conspiracy theories
In a CBS News interview after the Wisconsin verdict, Lenny Pozner described moving at least half a dozen times because read more

Oct 16 2019
SANDY HOOK FATHER AWARDED $450,000 IN DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Journalist: Louis Casiano Source Link: Fox News October 16, 2019 A Wisconsin jury has awarded the father of a boy killed read more

Oct 16 2019
Jury awards $450,000 to father of Sandy Hook victim in defamation case
A Wisconsin jury awarded Lenny Pozner $450,000 from James Fetzer, whose book claimed Noah's death certificate was fake, after Pozner's read more

Oct 16 2019
Father of Sandy Hook victim awarded $450,000 in case against conspiracy theorist who claims tragedy never happened
The Telegraph reports that a Wisconsin jury awarded Lenny Pozner $450,000 in his defamation case against James Fetzer, co-editor of read more

Jul 15 2019
A PUBLISHER APOLOGIZED FOR RUNNING A SANDY HOOK BOOK, THEN AUCTIONED OFF THE LAST COPIES
Journalist: Anna Merlan Source Link: Splinter News July 15, 2019 The publisher of a book claiming the Sandy Hook shootings read more

Jul 10 2019
A Grieving Sandy Hook Father on How to Fight Online Hoaxers
Journalist: Nick Thompson Source Link: Medium July 10, 2019 After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 — read more

Jun 18 2019
Sandy Hook Victim’s Father Wins Defamation Suit; Alex Jones Sanctioned
Journalist: Vanessa Romo Source Link: NPR June 18, 2019 Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 massacre at read more

Jun 18 2019
Father Of Sandy Hook Victim Wins Defamation Suit Against Hoaxers
HuffPost carried the Associated Press report that a Wisconsin judge ruled Lenny Pozner was defamed by James Fetzer and Mike read more

Jun 18 2019
Newtown parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxers
NBC News published the Associated Press account of Lenny Pozner's win in Wisconsin, where a judge granted summary judgment against read more

Jun 18 2019
Father of Sandy Hook victim wins defamation lawsuit in growing fight against hoaxers
The Globe and Mail ran the Associated Press report on Lenny Pozner's defamation win against the editors of “Nobody Died read more

Jun 18 2019
Father of six-year-old boy killed in Sandy Hook wins defamation suit against conspiracy theorists whose book claims the shooting never happened
The Daily Mail reported on the Wisconsin ruling that the editors of “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook” defamed Lenny Pozner read more

Jun 18 2019
Sandy Hook parent from Boca wins lawsuit against book linked to fired FAU prof
Lenny Pozner, who moved to Boca Raton after Noah was killed, won a Wisconsin judge's ruling that the authors of read more

May 9 2019
We’ve Come Together from Different Corners of the World To Say Enough is Enough
We’ve Come Together from Different Corners of the World To Say Enough is Enough People who have been harmed by read more

May 8 2019
‘Fake News Victims’ Meet With Twitter and Facebook
Journalist: Issie Lapowsky Source Link: Wired On paper, they would seem to have little in common. Tun Khin is a read more

Apr 15 2019
What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?
Journalist: Elizabeth Kolbert Source Link: New Yorker On the morning of December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, a warehouse worker read more

Mar 29 2019
Father Threatens to Sue Google After Online Conspiracy Theorists Allege his Daughter’s Death was Faked
Journalist: Piya Chattopadhyay Source Link: CBC Radio March 29, 2019 Alison Parker, a 24-year-old news reporter in Virginia was shot and read more

Mar 29 2019
Alex Jones – Sandy Hook Deposition
We Got Alex Jones’ Deposition Video. It Was A Predictable Disaster For Him. Journalist: Sebastian Murdock Source Link: Huffington Post read more

Mar 29 2019
How Alex Jones and Infowars Helped a Florida Man Torment Sandy Hook Families
Journalist: Elizabeth Williamson Source Link: New York Times (archived copy) March 29, 2019 In the world of conspiracy theorists, Alex read more

Mar 28 2019
Silencing the Lies: Victims of Conspiracy Theory Speak
Silencing the Lies: Victims of Conspiracy Theory Speak After a tragedy like Sandy Hook, survivors and family members find themselves read more

Mar 15 2019
Beware the Jabberwock
Source Link: This American Life March 15, 2019 Transcript Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed read more

Feb 19 2019
A Father Combats Conspiracy Theorists’ ‘Mob Hate,’ And Honors The Truth About Sandy Hook
In a long profile for Hartford Magazine, the Hartford Courant followed Lenny Pozner from the morning of December 14, 2012, read more

Feb 11 2019
The family that lost a son at Sandy Hook fights against vicious conspiracy theorists
Journalist: Cathryn J. Prince Source Link: Times of Israel February 11, 2019 Since a gunman took Noah Pozner’s life in read more

Feb 2 2019
Belgian Newspaper Discusses Conspiracy Theory with Pozner
Belgian Newspaper Discusses Conspiracy Theory with Lenny Pozner A father harassed by conspiracy theorists who don’t believe his son is read more

Jan 25 2019
YouTube vows to recommend fewer conspiracy theory videos
The Guardian reported that YouTube would cut back on recommending videos that could misinform users in harmful ways, after criticism read more

Dec 10 2018
Florida publisher of conspiracy books faces lawsuit over ‘Nobody Died at Sandy Hook.’
A Crestview man who publishes controversial books for the edification and entertainment of conspiracy theorists has been named in a read more

Dec 9 2018
Trolls force Sandy Hook father into hiding
Around Thanksgiving in 2012, Noah Pozner was happy with the toys he had received for his sixth birthday and had read more

Dec 4 2018
Father of Sandy Hook victim sues extremists on defamation charges
The father of a boy slain in the Sandy Hook shootings, who is suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has taken read more

Oct 12 2018
Sandy Hook Dad Suing Alex Jones Says South Florida Cop Illegally Accessed His Personal Info
Leonard Pozner has lived through unimaginable pain. His son Noah was shot to death during the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary read more

Sep 10 2018
Why Sandy Hook Father Lenny Pozner Has Received Death Threats | NowThis
Lenny Pozner’s six-year-old son Noah was shot and killed by a gunman along with 19 other kids and six adults read more

Aug 30 2018
Judge throws out Alex Jones attempt to dismiss lawsuit from Sandy Hook parents
A judge threw out an attempt by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by parents of a read more

Aug 16 2018
New WordPress.com policy allows it to shut down blogs of Sandy Hook deniers
TechCrunch reported that WordPress.com adopted a new policy against maliciously publishing unauthorized identifying images of minors, which let it take read more

Aug 6 2018
Win or Lose, the Alex Jones Lawsuit Will Help Redefine Free Speech
Wired examined how the defamation suit filed by Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa against Alex Jones could test read more

Jul 26 2018
Parents of Sandy Hook Victim Write Open Letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published Wednesday, the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim urged the Facebook CEO to remove harassment and conspiracy read more
Jul 26 2018
Newtown parents urge Facebook to act against claims massacre never happened
Jul 26 2018
Parents of Sandy Hook Victim Accuse Facebook of Providing ‘Safe Haven for Hate’
NEWTOWN – The parents of a boy slain in the Sandy Hook massacre say they are being traumatized all over read more

Jul 26 2018
Parents Of Sandy Hook Victim: Facebook Is An ‘Instrument To Disseminate Hate
The parents of Noah Pozner, one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, penned read more

Jul 25 2018
Parents of Sandy Hook Victim Slam Facebook
The parents of one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting want to know read more

May 23 2018
More families of Sandy Hook victims, FBI agent sue Infowars’ Alex Jones
The Chicago Tribune reported that six more Sandy Hook families and an FBI agent who responded to the shooting filed read more

Apr 23 2018
Jacqueline Smith: Parents’ courage confronts mean conspiracies
In a NewsTimes column, Jacqueline Smith applauded Lenny Pozner, Veronique De La Rosa and Neil Heslin for suing Alex Jones read more

Dec 12 2017
Fired Florida professor who called Sandy Hook massacre a hoax fails to win his job back
The Los Angeles Times reported that a federal jury ruled against James Tracy, the former Florida Atlantic University professor who read more

Dec 12 2017
A Grieving Sandy Hook Father’s Five-Year Battle Against Mass-Shooting Hoaxers
Conspiracy theorists say the Newtown massacre was staged. Lenny Pozner has made it his life’s work to protect the honor read more

Oct 10 2017
The hoaxers harassing Las Vegas victims
The hoaxers harassing Las Vegas victims The news crews move on, but the impact of a mass shooting such as read more

Jun 9 2017
Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist gets prison time for threatening victim’s family
For Leonard Pozner, who is devoted to combatting hoaxers, the sentencing is a ‘powerful outcome’ that he hopes will raise read more

Jun 7 2017
Judge sentences Florida woman to prison for death threats against Sandy Hook father
A Tampa resident pled guilty today before United States District Judge James I. Cohn and was sentenced to prison for read more

May 13 2017
Sandy Hook father Lenny Pozner on death threats: ‘I never imagined I’d have to fight for my child’s legacy’
Noah Pozner was reluctant to go to school that day. A mischievous little boy, who had celebrated his sixth birthday read more

May 7 2017
The Sandy Hook Deniers
A paranoid conspiracy theory has acquired new and disturbing power in America, and it has been spread by an alternative read more

Apr 1 2017
Alex Jones and InfoWars: How Sandy Hook families fought back
BBC Trending reported on how Sandy Hook families, Lenny Pozner among them, began fighting back against conspiracy theorists who claimed read more

Feb 3 2017
In an age of ‘alternative facts,’ a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax
BY BARBARA DEMICK FEB. 3, 2017 12 PM PT Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Reporting from Newtown, Conn. — If there is read more
Feb 3 2017
Father of Sandy Hook victim warns against conspiracy theories
CBC Radio·Posted: Feb 03, 2017 8:06 PM ET | Last Updated: February 3, 2017 The city of Victoria and the read more

Dec 23 2016
Sandy Hook Parent Hopes Arrest in Threat Case Stops Talk of ‘Hoax’
Six-year-old Noah Pozner was shot and killed on Dec. 14, 2012, one of 20 children and six adults murdered at read more
Dec 19 2016
Father of Sandy Hook victim speaks out against ‘hoaxers’
Lenny Pozner and his family moved from Connecticut to Florida after his 6 year-old son Noah was killed in the Sandy Hook read more

Dec 16 2016
Padre in lotta contro i negazionisti – Alla Sandy Hook morto il mio Noah
On the morning of December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and, before committing read more

Dec 15 2016
Sandy Hook dad fights lies about murdered son
Here is the reality that Lenny Pozner faces every day: On a Friday morning four years ago, Lenny dropped off read more

Dec 14 2016
The Agony of Sandy Hook Continues Four Years Later
On the fourth anniversary of the shooting, the San Diego Free Press looked at how Sandy Hook families were still read more

Dec 12 2016
Sandy Hook Victim’s Father Speaks Out Against ‘Hoaxers’
Just one week before the fourth anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the father of one of read more

Dec 8 2016
Woman charged with threatening Sandy Hook victim’s family
A Florida woman has been charged with making death threats against the parent of a child who died in the Sandy Hook read more

Dec 7 2016
Sandy Hook Truther Arrested for Threatening to Kill Parent of Murdered Child
Lucy Richards made the threats in January this year because she thought the attack was a hoax, officials say. The read more

Sep 21 2016
German Press: Noah Is No Longer Alive
On September 21, 2016, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung ran a page-three feature by Hakan Tanriverdi titled “Noah lebt nicht read more

Sep 1 2016
Sandy Hook massacre victims’ parents harassed by ‘truthers’, told children never existed
Families of America’s gun massacre victims, including those from the Sandy Hook school shooting and the latest rampage in Orlando, read more

Jun 28 2016
Honouring Noah
Sandy Hook: Family of shooting victim reveals trauma of living with tragedy Correspondents Report / By former North American correspondent Lisa read more

Apr 26 2016
6 Horrifying Realities Of Dealing With Sandy Hook ‘Truthers’
How long do you think it takes conspiracy theorists to turn nasty after a national tragedy? A year? A month? read more

Jan 19 2016
Father of Child Killed at Sandy Hook Says FAU and BOCA Police Ignored JAMES TRACY’S Harassment
The Florida professor who became known for floating bogus theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is fighting read more

Jan 13 2016
The father of a boy killed at Sandy Hook gets death threats; some people say the shooting was a hoax
By Susan Svrluga January 13, 2016 In December, parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the mass shooting at read more

Jan 6 2016
Florida Atlantic University Fired Its Sandy Hook–Truther Professor
Dr. James Tracy, a communications professor at Florida Atlantic University who believes the Sandy Hook massacre to be a hoax read more

Jan 6 2016
Florida Professor Who Cast Doubt on Mass Shootings Is Fired
MIAMI — A Florida Atlantic University professor who suggested in blog postings and radio interviews that the 2012 massacre of read more

Jan 2 2016
Fred Grimm: Florida’s unhinged ‘truthers’ exacerbate Newtown’s grief
BY FRED Tony Mead feels victimized. “I’ve been attacked online. My business has been attacked. My ex-wife has been read more
Dec 22 2015
What Kind of Person Calls a Mass Shooting a Hoax?
A year and a half after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Lenny Pozner called read more

Dec 18 2015
Conspiracy Theorist Who Targeted Noah Pozner’s Family May Be Fired
The Forward reported that Florida Atlantic University had moved to fire professor James Tracy, who promoted conspiracy theories about the read more

Dec 18 2015
Professor Faces Firing Over Belief Sandy Hook Was a Hoax
BY DANIEL WHITE DECEMBER 18, 2015 8:27 AM EST A university in Florida made efforts Wednesday to fire a professor who upset many read more

Dec 10 2015
Sandy Hook Massacre 3rd Anniversary: Two parents target FAU conspiracy theorist
Sandy Hook Massacre 3rd Anniversary: Two parents target FAU conspiracy theorist By Lenny and Veronique Pozner8:15 pm, December 10, 2015 It’s read more
Jul 25 2014
Our Grief Denied: The Twisted Cruelty Of Sandy Hook Hoaxers
By LENNY POZNER | COMMENTARYHartford Courant • Jul 25, 2014, at 6:55 pm More than a year and a half after Adam read more

Jun 16 2014
Father of Little Boy Murdered at Sandy Hook Speaks
The loss of a child is a pain few parents can imagine. For those whose children were brutally murdered at read more

Jan 12 2013
Sandy Hook parents jumping into national debate
Weeks after the shooting, the NewsTimes reported that some Sandy Hook families were preparing to take public roles in the read more



































