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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 anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss. That is what happened to the family of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old with tousled brown hair

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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 Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Those are the facts. But conspiracy theorists have long pushed the idea that the shootings were a hoax, part of a government plot to impose gun control. Some

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