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In the astir six years since the wide shooting astatine Sandy Hook Elementary School, the assemblage of Newtown, Connecticut – and each 26 families who mislaid a kid oregon a loved 1 – person dilatory tried to determination forward. But immoderate families consciousness they person nary prime but to look back, to look down thing they ne'er imagined they would face: an outlandish story launched online and dispersed done societal media that the shooting astatine Sandy Hook ne'er really happened, oregon that it was staged with the assistance of paid "actors," including the grieving parents themselves, and that the children who were killed had ne'er lived successful the archetypal place. Earlier this year, respective families of victims filed lawsuits against Alex Jones, the online provocateur whom they consciousness is chiefly liable for spreading lies and conspiracy theories concerning their murdered children. Tony Dokoupil reports.
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