The parents of Noah Pozner, one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, penned an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Guardian on Wednesday, urging him to find solutions to the abuse they, and other victims’ parents, have been subjected to, particularly on the social media platform.
Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa wrote that the attacks began almost immediately after the massacre: Conspiracy groups and anti-government provocateurs made claims on Facebook that the massacre was a hoax, that the murdered were “crisis actors” and that their audience should rise to “find out the truth” about the families.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/406700/parents-of-sandy-hook-victim-facebook-is-an-instrument-to-disseminate-hate/
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