Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook shootings and an FBI agent who responded to the scene filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against Alex Jones, the controversial internet personality who called the massacre “fake.”
The lawsuit, filed in Connecticut, states that Jones has made numerous, repeated false claims about the 2012 shootings, including that victims and families were “crisis actors” and that it was an elaborate hoax orchestrated by the government to take away guns from the public.
“Yeah, so, Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured,” the lawsuit quotes Jones as saying in 2015.
The Sandy Hook shootings left 20 children and six adults dead on December 14, 2012.
The lawsuit continues: “Jones is the chief amplifier for a group that has worked in concert to create and propagate loathsome, false narratives about the Sandy Hook shooting and its victims, and promote their harassment and abuse.”
There are six companies named in the suit, including ones tied to Jones’ remarkably popular website Infowars, a hard-right-leaning talk show with a penchant for conspiracy theories and belligerent tirades about things Jones despises: anti-gun politics, Hillary Clinton, globalists, and tap water that turns frogs gay.
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Kenji Yoshino: The Challenge of Constitutional Interpretation
Kenji Yoshino
Professor, NYU School of Law; Author
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His YouTube channel currently has about 2.3 million subscribers, and his infowarsstore.com is estimated to sell between $7 to $12 million in dietary supplements a year, in addition to sales of T-shirts, books, and doomsday gear. Jones…
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