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Directed by Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”), the documentary offers a lesson in how conspiracy theories work and how the parents confronted Jones in court.
By Ben Kenigsberg
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Although the legal war between the Sandy Hook families and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been widely covered, it’s still hard to watch the documentary “The Truth Against Alex Jones” without feeling a surge of nausea.
Directed by Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”), the film methodically depicts the horrors faced by families in Newton, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman killed 20 freshmen and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Percentage of memories of the morning before your children left for school. Daniel Jewiss, the lead investigator, explains to the audience how the bloodbath unfolded.
The documentary then shows how, while the parents were struggling with unfathomable grief, Jones, through his Infowars presentations, began to peddle the idea that the shooting was a hoax. While he continued to spread lies, other people who clung to those claims harassed the families. Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed at Sandy Hook, describes bullying as something that happens in waves. “It’s almost like I know when Alex Jones said something,” she says in a testimonial for the film.
If it’s helpful to recap those occasions, it’s by force of watching the parents confront Jones in court. (In two lawsuits, in Texas and Connecticut, they were awarded more than $1 billion in damages. )It’s also terrifying to see how Hopefully, Jones deflects questions and tries to steer proceedings on their merits, denying families what Alissa Parker, Emilie’s mother, calls “a moment of reflection. “
“The Truth vs. Alex Jones” gives a lesson in how vicious and pervasive conspiracy theories can be and a chilling portrait of how little disruption they can pose to their suppliers.
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