Heslin, Neil
Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
AUSTIN, Texas — In a brutal cross-examination on Wednesday in the trial of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a lawyer for Sandy Hook parents produced text messages from Mr. Jones’s cellphone showing that he had withheld key evidence in defamation lawsuits brought by the families for lies he had spread about the 2012 school shooting. […]
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‘I Want You to Hear This’: A Sandy Hook Mother Confronts Alex Jones
AUSTIN, Texas — For 90 searing minutes in a courtroom on Tuesday, a Sandy Hook mother brought the conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones face-to-face with the havoc she said his lies about the mass shooting that killed her son had wrought on her family and on the national discourse. “Truth — truth is so vital to […]
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Lies for Profit: Can Sandy Hook Parents Shut Alex Jones Down?
AUSTIN, Texas — When viral lies harm private people, are the courts their best refuge? A trial to decide how much the conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay a Sandy Hook family for defaming them attempts to answer that question. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of Jesse Lewis, 6, who died at Sandy […]
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Alex Jones Puts Company Behind Infowars Empire Into Bankruptcy
AUSTIN, Texas — Facing a potential $150 million judgment and two more damages trials for defaming the families of people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, the conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones on Friday put his Infowars empire into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Last year, Mr. Jones lost four defamation lawsuits filed by the families […]
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Alex Jones Liable in Sandy Hook Defamation Suits
WASHINGTON — A state court in Connecticut granted a sweeping victory to the families of eight people killed in a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., who had sued the far-right broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media outlet for defamation. The judge ruled on Monday that […]
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