What if sandy hook was a hoax

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Comments 0. Top Stories. Expert at Rittenhouse trial zeroes in on just a few minutes 42 minutes ago. Program to kill Grand Canyon bison nets 4 animals, criticism 1 hour ago. Nov 10, AM. Instead, she found evidence to the contrary, but when she brought this to Halbig, she says he dismissed her.

In December, Moser left the group and began helping Pozner. She did not give up fringe theories entirely and believes that her son has autism because of a childhood vaccine. Moser was disappointed that after she left, only one hoaxer approached her to ask what had changed her mind.

Instead, they turned on her, accusing her of being a part of the conspiracy all along. Moser said they published her personal information, as they had done with several Sandy Hook families, and reported her to Child Protective Services.

One hoaxer obtained explicit footage Moser had shared with a former boyfriend and posted it online. The two girls happen to look alike if you pick the right photograph from the right angle. If Rodriguez Googles her name — she is now 12 years old — she will be confronted with a page full of results declaring that she is actually her dead schoolmate.

While conspiracy theorists thrive online, Pozner found most of them to be technologically unsophisticated, and his IT background gave him an advantage. Pozner found that his most effective tool for getting material taken down was to file copyright claims whenever anyone used a family photo of him, or Noah, in a post. Pozner had little contact with other Sandy Hook families, most of whom simply hoped the hoaxers would move on to other preoccupations.

He cited a Southern Poverty Law Center report that tied nearly a hundred murders to stormfront. Halbig was far from the only active hoaxer. Halbig co-hosts a semi-regular Sandy Hook Justice Report podcast with a man who uses a pseudonym in an attempt to conceal his identity.

The investigation has been financially costly to both sides. Whenever Halbig comes to Newtown, a group of local fathers keeps tabs on him.

Halbig has been banned from St. Rose of Lima, a local church, after he was seen with other hoaxers who were allegedly videotaping kids walking in and out of the building. A local official told me that one of the Sandy Hook mothers had started crying when she heard Halbig was in town. The old building was torn down after the shooting, which hoaxers view as the ultimate destruction of evidence. Halbig was in town to review insurance claims he had requested, hoping they would show there had been no actual damage done by the shooting.

By this point, he had narrowed his 16 questions to five. This is my big one — who ordered the port-a-potties? Halbig tends to fixate on minor details that he imbues with outsize meaning, a strategy that also has the benefit of filling his days with an endless number of leads to follow. He ignores countervailing arguments and exaggerates both the evidence for his theories and his credentials, which he regularly cites as qualification for his investigation: Halbig said that during his brief career as a state trooper, he once drove in a motorcade protecting Martin Luther King Jr.

Halbig told me that he modeled himself on Perry Mason and Columbo and compared his investigation to his recent experience at a David Copperfield show. As Pozner struggled with the sheer volume of disparaging material on the internet, he started to look for a more permanent solution. He began to wonder, however, if there were less violent ways to punch back. He filed a complaint with the Florida attorney general against Halbig and built a website on which he posted the personal information of various hoaxers.

A few weeks later, the university dismissed Tracy for filing improper paperwork. US radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost another legal case after falsely calling a mass school shooting a "hoax". Twenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in But Mr Jones claimed the event had been made up by supporters of gun controls and the mainstream media.

He will now have to pay legal costs to the parents of two six-year-old boys killed in the attack. Mr Jones has long claimed on his radio show and right-wing Infowars website that the attack at Sandy Hook was "completely fake" and a "giant hoax".

He has faced a slew of legal cases from several parents of the victims. In response, he has acknowledged the shooting took place but denied wronging the families.