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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 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman murdered 20 first graders and six adults. If you haven’t listened to part one, in which we interview New […]

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Wolfgang Halbig

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 ended the lives of twenty-six and 7-year-old children and six teachers and school educators.      After his murder, Noah’s family became the targets of Alex Jones, a prolific conspiracy theorist who, along with his

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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 still believe the death of 6-year-old Noah was a lie, despite his father’s efforts and court convictions. … This insane theory was mainly popularized by Alex Jones, an ultra-conservative personality whose far-right Infowars site widely disseminated the worst fake

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Noah Pozner Boston Globe

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 Parents Have Been On A Mission To Defend The Truth Ever Since. VERONIQUE POZNER’S panic was a bird, beating its wings inside her chest. “Sandy Hook Elementary School,” another oncology nurse read aloud from the

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Lenny Pozner on sway with Kara Swisher

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 Swisher revisits one that is almost a decade old: that Sandy Hook was a hoax. After a shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary School killed 26 people, including Noah Pozner, his father, Leonard Pozner, began seeing

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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 on the Internet tells about its fight to cleanse its reputation. “Scammer”, “pedophile”, and “child molester”: a Torontonian posted nearly 12,000 false comments targeting 150 people on the web. Its victims, some of whom live

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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 his policy team leader. Journalists: Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman Source Link: BuzzFeed February 21, 2021 In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet’s most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate,

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Sandy Hook HONR Network

Rioters Followed a Long Conspiratorial Road to the Capitol

Journalist: Elizabeth Williamson Source Link: New York Times January 27, 2021 When Brendan Hunt was arrested and charged with demanding the “public execution” of Democratic leaders this month, students of American conspiracy theory could hardly be surprised. Two decades ago, Mr. Hunt, a 37-year-old sometime Shakespearean actor, had spread misinformation around the Sept. 11 terrorist

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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 out on Monday after the highest court in Texas rejected appeals by extremist Alex Jones to dismiss their defamation lawsuits against him. “The First Amendment doesn’t give you the right to slander or defame or

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