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“Sandy Hook Elementary School,” another oncology nurse read from the television, “Isn’t that where your kids go?”
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
Veronique Pozner raced to the school to wait for her children.
When 6-year-old Noah didn't emerge, his father wondered if he was hiding. https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
When 26 people were murdered at school in Newtown that day, the mainstreaming of the Internet collided with the fresh grief of a shocking tragedy in a way the world had never seen.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
Speculation about shadowy forces at work began immediately on fringe Internet forums and blogs.
At home the night before he was killed, Noah had stopped playing video games and climbed onto his father Lenny’s lap. “I love you, Dad.” Was he saying goodbye? https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
State Police released 11,000 pages of police reports, crime scene photos, 911 call transcripts, and other records. Some records were sealed, including crime scene photos showing bodies.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
Journalists fought for more records. The Sandy Hook “truthers” demanded more proof.
Veronique’s co-worker at a Florida hospital asked about her tattoo — the one she had gotten in Noah's memory — and then told her the government had staged the shooting to take away people’s guns.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
After that, Veronique stopped telling people how Noah died.
A few months earlier, Lenny had launched the HONR Network, a nonprofit with the goal to fight hoaxers and hold them “personally accountable” for their lies and abuse. Sometimes, they employed the same techniques as those they fought: Mock. Dox. Expose. Shame.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
A new hoaxer documentary came out around the second anniversary that Infowars praised as a “tell-all, leave no stone unturned work.”
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
Lenny flagged it on multiple platforms — including Infowars’ channels. YouTube deleted the video. Jones was outraged. https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
Every wave of conspiracy theories seemed louder. Each outlandish idea paved the way for the next.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
If you believed deep-state operatives were heinous enough to stage a massacre in Newtown and a bombing in Boston, what wouldn’t they do? https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
It seemed to Lenny that people were being infected by something online — some contagion that warped reality and eviscerated compassion: a thought virus, passed from one vulnerable person to another.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
This was a public health crisis, he decided. https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
In the first of three trials, jurors awarded Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis nearly $50 million. Some of Jones’s companies have sought bankruptcy protection.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
Lenny and Veronique hope to get their day in court in Texas this fall. https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
Read the full story in @BostonGlobeMag to learn more about the Pozner's 10-year quest.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 17, 2022
'One family’s epic fight against Sandy Hook conspiracies, Alex Jones, and those who deny their son ever lived' https://t.co/rtp1Rhl8jI
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