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InfoWars’ Alex Jones ordered to pay more than $4 million to Sandy Hook parents

HOUSTON — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $4.11 million in defamation damages for falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said on Thursday after deliberating for a full day in Travis County.

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Commentary: What happens when TikTok is your main source of news and information

On TikTok you’re liable to find restaurant recommendations, lip-syncing snippets and false claims stating that COVID-19 vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue and that crisis actors faked the Uvalde school shooting. TikTok, along with Instagram, is where Gen Z searches for information and entertainment. They often come up with a blurry…

Los Angeles Times

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook school shooting was ‘100% real’

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has testified that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was “100% real” and it was wrong to call it a hoax.

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Lawyers for Alex Jones turned over evidence that contradicted his testimony

After years of telling his followers the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged, Jones admitted on the stand that the massacre was real. He is being sued in Austin by parents of one of the shooting’s victims.

The Texas Tribune

Sandy Hook victim’s mother leads a powerful condemnation of Alex Jones: full text

‘Having a six-year-old son shot in his forehead in his classroom is unbearable... You think I’m an actress?’ Scarlett Lewis asked Jones directly at one point

The Independent UK

Parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim call for accountability in Alex Jones’ defamation trial

The parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis are suing Jones for falsely claiming that the 2012 mass school shooting was a hoax meant to take away Americans’ guns. The trial is the first of three to determine monetary penalties against the Texas-based conspiracy theorist for his lies about the tragedy.

The Texas Tribune

Alex Jones 'cowardly' for missing court, Sandy Hook dad says

The father of a 6-year-old killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting says it was “cowardly” of Alex Jones to skip hearing his testimony in person about how Jones’ claims that the massacre was a hoax deeply affected his family

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Nikolas Cruz watched ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ music video about school shooting on his way to Parkland massacre

Foster the People song is written from the perspective of a violent student

The Independent UK

Uvalde rekindles school police officer's looming fears

The fear that the next school shooting could happen in their hallways hangs over school resource officers across the United States

The Independent UK

Psychiatrist says Sandy Hook parents fear for their lives

A psychiatrist says that the parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder and a constant fear that followers of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will kill them

The Independent UK

Uvalde school shooting survivor Mayah Zamora discharged from San Antonio hospital

Ten-year-old Mayah Nicole Zamora, critically injured in the shooting at Robb Elementary School, goes home after 66 days, with the hospital hailing her a "hero".

ABC News

Alex Jones’ company files for bankruptcy midway through Sandy Hook damages trial

Free Speech Systems submitted the filing during a two-week trial to determine how much the Texas-based conspiracy theorist will award the parents of a victim in the 2012 school shooting, prompting speculation about the company’s effort to avoid bankruptcy oversight as a small business.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde elementary principal reinstated after school shooting investigation, lawyer says

Mandy Gutierrez was put on paid leave Monday and responded Wednesday to a Texas House committee’s investigative report about the massacre. On Thursday, her attorney released a letter from the Uvalde superintendent saying she’s no longer on administrative leave.

The Texas Tribune

America's brand tanks in Europe

The Uvalde school shooting and the end of Roe took a devastating toll on Europe's view of the U.S.

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America’s Got Talent judges stunned by school shooting survivor’s emotional audition

Simon Cowell described the performance as ‘one of those auditions that I’ll never forget’

Daily Mirror

Simon Cowell 'will never forget' America's Got Talent audition by school shooting survivor

Simon Cowell and his fellow America's Got Talent judges were wowed by Ava Swiss, who survived a school shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan last year

The Texas Tribune

Texas House publishes report of Uvalde school shooting investigation in Spanish

The House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting said it intended to publish the report in both languages but was unable to get it translated before a meeting last Sunday when the English version was released.

The Independent UK

School police didn’t stop Parkland or Uvalde shootings, and often discriminate against students. Why did Biden give them $300m?

Campus police officers are often cited as an effective tool against gun violence. But the data shows they do little to stop school shootings — and often discriminate against students of colour. Josh Marcus reports

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Gene Collier: Too many guns, too few pianos

Perhaps you've become sickeningly aware this week that the response by law enforcement to the Uvalde school shooting May 24 did not unfold as it should have. Mistakes, as they say, were made. Boy were they.

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Judge orders Oxford schools to comply with depositions in civil suit over shootings

PONTIAC, Mich. – An Oakland Circuit judge ordered the attorney for the Oxford School District Wednesday to comply with a request for depositions in a civil lawsuit stemming from the Nov. 30 high school shooting in which four students died and seven others were wounded.

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‘My son was a coward,’ Uvalde shooter’s mom says while apologizing to victim’s family

Relatives of one of the children killed in the Uvalde school shooting confronted the killer’s mother on Tuesday — a tense and heartbreaking scene that ultimately ended with the mother apologizing through tears for her son’s actions.

The Independent UK

Nikolas Cruz sentencing: A timeline of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Former student finally facing judgement for attack that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018

The Independent UK

Parents of Oxford school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley ask judge to toss involuntary manslaughter charges

James and Jennifer Crumbley are also arguing that – should the charges stick and the case proceed to trial – damning text messages sent from their son to a friend should not be presented to the jury

The Independent UK

School police didn’t stop Parkland or Uvalde shootings, and often discriminate against students. Why did Biden give them $300m?

Tribune News Service

State senator questions having Texas DPS review Uvalde shooting response

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde questioned Tuesday whether the Texas Department of Public Safety can be trusted to review its own officers’ actions during the Robb Elementary School shooting.

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