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Alex Jones
Legal challenges
Sandy Hook school shooting defamation case
Jones was accused of defamation for allegedly lying to his Infowars audience about the events of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The plaintiffs - parents of several of the children killed in the incident - allege that Jones “lied and attacked the parents of murdered children” while describing the shooting as a hoax.1)
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Associated Press in Austin. (2022, July 26). Sandy Hook defamation jury told of Alex Jones’s “massive campaign of lies.” The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729213123/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/26/alex-jones-defamation-trial-sandy-hook-shooting