After the Sandy School Elementary School shooting in 2012, where six adults and 20 young children were murdered by a lone gunman, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones began speculating that the deaths were staged and describing the tragedy as “a giant hoax” orchestrated as part of a plot to seize people’s guns. These false claims – which he later retracted – led to years of harassment for victims’ grieving families, several of whom successfully sued Jones for defamation and walked away withhellip;

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