‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground

‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed spent four years following the circus created by the rightwing TV host after he claimed the Sandy Hook school shooting never happened

There is a statistic dropped into the middle of the new HBO documentary about Alex Jones and his conspiracy-laden campaign to deny the Sandy Hook school massacre that is so startling it changes the complexion of the film.

It’s tempting to see the blustering alt-right InfoWars host as little more than a charlatan selling snake oil conspiracies to the fringes of American society. But then The Truth vs Alex Jones tells us that one in four Americans believes Jones’s claim that the 2012 murder of 20 small children and six staff at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, never happened.

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