"I wanted to tell you, dear face, that i am a mother first and foremost. I your father and my son existed," she said. "Truth is what we base our reality on." She asked him: Do you understand what you're doing when you spread lies about this tragedy? Why? Why for money?"
This episode contains descriptions of distressing scenes.
In a landmark ruling, a jury in Texas ordered Alex Jones, America’s most prominent conspiracy theorist, to pay millions of dollars to the parents of a boy killed at Sandy Hook for the damage caused by his lies about the mass shooting.
What is the significance of the trial, and will it do anything to change the world of lies and misinformation?
Guest: Elizabeth Williamson, a feature writer based in the Washington bureau of The New York Times.
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