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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:07:05 AM
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"I'm unfamiliar... I just found it amusing. People who want to exterminate entire races of "others" are offended that you might offer them harm."
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out
According to a recent study, half of the American public endorses at least one conspiracy theory. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Guardian
What happens to those caught up in the toxic lies of conspiracy theorists? The Guardian spoke to five victims whose lives were wrecked by falsehoods
by Ed Pilkington
[...]
Lenny Pozner’s six-year-old son Noah died at Sandy
Hook in 2012. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Guardian
Lenny Pozner, 51, is preparing to pack his bags, again. A few weeks ago, “hoaxers” – as he calls conspiracy theorists – reproduced a map of his Florida neighborhood with a dropped pin marking the precise location of his apartment. It will be the eighth time in five years he will have been forced to move home as he strives to keep one step ahead of the fanatics who relentlessly hound him.
[SICK MONGRELS]
Pozner’s crime, in the eyes of conspiracy theorists, is being the father of one of the 20 children who were gunned down in the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Noah was the youngest of all victims. He had just turned six.
Within months, conspiracy theorists, egged on by Alex Jones and Infowars, went to work. They generated thousands of web posts and a 426-page book called “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook”.
Conspiracy theories are more rampant than ever. Can they be stopped?
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/14/conspiracy-theories-misconceptions-rampant-politics
Their thesis: the shooting at the elementary school never happened. The 20 kids who died were “crisis actors”. The tragedy was a con. Noah had never even existed, he was a construct of Photoshop.
Within a year, it had reached such a pitch that Pozner knew he had to do something. “I agonized about the situation for several weeks. But ultimately I felt I owed it to my son to protect his memory.” He posted on his Google+ page his son’s birth and death certificates and kindergarten report card.
“I was extremely naive. I believed that people were simply misinformed and that if I released proof that my child had existed, thrived, loved and was loved, and was ultimately murdered, they would understand our grief, stop harassing us, and more importantly, stop defacing photos of Noah and defaming him online.”
Instead, he watched his deceased son buried a second time, under hundreds of pages of hateful web content. “I don’t think there’s any one word that fits the horror of it,” Pozner says. “It’s a phenomenon of the age which we’re in, modern day witch-hunts. It’s a form of mass delusion.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/conspiracy-theories-internet-survivors-truth
Me too.
"I'm unfamiliar... I just found it amusing. People who want to exterminate entire races of "others" are offended that you might offer them harm."
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out
According to a recent study, half of the American public endorses at least one conspiracy theory. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Guardian
What happens to those caught up in the toxic lies of conspiracy theorists? The Guardian spoke to five victims whose lives were wrecked by falsehoods
by Ed Pilkington
[...]
Lenny Pozner’s six-year-old son Noah died at Sandy
Hook in 2012. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Guardian
Lenny Pozner, 51, is preparing to pack his bags, again. A few weeks ago, “hoaxers” – as he calls conspiracy theorists – reproduced a map of his Florida neighborhood with a dropped pin marking the precise location of his apartment. It will be the eighth time in five years he will have been forced to move home as he strives to keep one step ahead of the fanatics who relentlessly hound him.
[SICK MONGRELS]
Pozner’s crime, in the eyes of conspiracy theorists, is being the father of one of the 20 children who were gunned down in the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Noah was the youngest of all victims. He had just turned six.
Within months, conspiracy theorists, egged on by Alex Jones and Infowars, went to work. They generated thousands of web posts and a 426-page book called “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook”.
Conspiracy theories are more rampant than ever. Can they be stopped?
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/14/conspiracy-theories-misconceptions-rampant-politics
Their thesis: the shooting at the elementary school never happened. The 20 kids who died were “crisis actors”. The tragedy was a con. Noah had never even existed, he was a construct of Photoshop.
Within a year, it had reached such a pitch that Pozner knew he had to do something. “I agonized about the situation for several weeks. But ultimately I felt I owed it to my son to protect his memory.” He posted on his Google+ page his son’s birth and death certificates and kindergarten report card.
“I was extremely naive. I believed that people were simply misinformed and that if I released proof that my child had existed, thrived, loved and was loved, and was ultimately murdered, they would understand our grief, stop harassing us, and more importantly, stop defacing photos of Noah and defaming him online.”
Instead, he watched his deceased son buried a second time, under hundreds of pages of hateful web content. “I don’t think there’s any one word that fits the horror of it,” Pozner says. “It’s a phenomenon of the age which we’re in, modern day witch-hunts. It’s a form of mass delusion.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/conspiracy-theories-internet-survivors-truth
Me too.
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