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A NOTORIOUS SANDY HOOK TORMENTOR IS ARRESTED IN FLORIDA
Journalist: Elizabeth Williamson Source Link: NY Times January 27, 2020 Wolfgang Halbig, who has falsely accused the families of shooting victims in Newtown, Conn., of constructing an elaborate hoax, was charged with the unlawful possession of personal identification. Sheriff’s deputies in Lake County, Fla., on Monday arrested a notorious tormentor of the parents of Sandy…
ORGANIZATION SCRUBS INTERNET OF HARASSING POSTS, HELPS FAMILY OF SHANANN WATTS
Journalist: Marc Sallinger Source Link: 9News January 16, 2020 https://www.9news.com/embeds/video/73-a7b4b446-7de6-46d9-93d1-92b2aba05b7c/iframe For the victims of some of the worst crimes and mass shootings in the country, the pain doesn’t stop after the case is closed. Conspiracy theories, disinformation and threats made against the families of the victims run rampant online. That’s what the family of Shanann Watts…
NPR: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED – HIS SON WAS KILLED AT SANDY HOOK. THEN CAME THE ONLINE HARASSMENT
Journalist: Michel Martin Source Link: NPR December 14, 2019 Transcript: MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: On this day seven years ago, a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Twenty children, along with six adults, were killed. Incredibly, for the families, the nightmare did not end with the deaths of their children. The…
SANDY HOOK FATHER AWARDED $450,000 IN DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Journalist: Louis Casiano Source Link: Fox News October 16, 2019 A Wisconsin jury has awarded the father of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting $450,000 following a defamation lawsuit against a retired university professor who claimed the massacre never happened. Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was among 26 victims killed at…
A PUBLISHER APOLOGIZED FOR RUNNING A SANDY HOOK BOOK, THEN AUCTIONED OFF THE LAST COPIES
Journalist: Anna Merlan Source Link: Splinter News July 15, 2019 The publisher of a book claiming the Sandy Hook shootings were a hoax apologized to Lenny Pozner, the father of one of the victims, several weeks ago, agreed to stop selling the book, and issued a statement saying he believes Pozner’s son Noah did really…
A Grieving Sandy Hook Father on How to Fight Online Hoaxers
Journalist: Nick Thompson Source Link: Medium July 10, 2019 After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 — which killed 26 people, 20 of them children — it surely seemed that if nothing else, Americans could agree on the abhorrent nature of the tragedy. The country may be divided on gun control and…
First, they lost their children. Then the conspiracy theories started. Now, the parents of Newtown are fighting back.
Journalist: Susan Svrluga Source Link: Washington Post July 8, 2019 It was just weeks after 26 people were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School when Lenny Pozner first saw people speculating online that the rampage had been staged, with crisis actors responding to a fake attack. His 6-year-old son, Noah Pozner, who had gone…