Alex Jones Accused of Destroying Evidence Related to Sandy Hook Lawsuits
Source: The Daily Beast
Lawyers for the families of two Sandy Hook victims have accused Alex Jones and InfoWars, the company he cofounded, of intentionally destroying evidence relevant to the defamation cases against him in a motion filed Friday, The New York Times reports. On his broadcast last week, Jones said he instructed staffers to delete some content from Twitter after CNN pointed out that several of his posts violated the platforms policies. But some of the content was considered evidence in the Sandy Hook cases, and Jones was obligated to preserve all relevant material, the lawyers argue. As pressure mounted from pending defamation lawsuits and growing public indignation, Mr. Jones chose to destroy evidence of his actual malice and defamatory conduct, the motion reads. Infowars deleted critical evidence at the precise moment plaintiff and his experts were attempting to marshal that evidence. Jones is currently being sued for defamation by nine Sandy Hook families after claiming that the shooting was a hoax. He was suspended from Twitter for a week after it was revealed that some of his posts were in violation of the sites policies. Jones has also been booted off of Facebook, Youtube, iTunes, and Spotify for his controversial podcasts, videos, and posts.
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cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)The suit said that it was not known how much content had been deleted, but that it included written social media materials and videos. The motion was filed on behalf of Neil Heslin, father of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old killed at Sandy Hook, by Mark Bankston, Kyle Farrar and William Ogden of Farrar & Ball in Houston.
Over the five years since the shooting, families of the Sandy Hook victims have been stalked, threatened and subjected to online abuse by Mr. Joness followers, after he spread false claims about the mass shooting, calling it synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured, according to court documents.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)Hope the Sandy Hook families lawsuit him into oblivion.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)And if so...you realize the day Alex Jones goes to federal prison will become a national holiday, right? It'll be called Truth Day.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)And just in case he attempts some justification, he was TOLD to retain any and all information, documentation, etc., relative to this case by the judge presiding over it.
And there are other cases proceeding against him. He mis-identified the shooter in the Parkland massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who is now suing him as well. My niece, who is 15 (well, she was 15), and all of the other students there were also the target of his lies and ugly smear campaign.
His reign of terror is O - V - E - R, and I, for one, am ecstatic.
djacq
(1,633 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)He's screwed you might say.....................say bye bye, these parents want his neck, you might say...............good
Lock his filthy ass up.................
mysteryowl
(7,323 posts)mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)she was singing the praises of Bill O. and others..I said something like they should never slime the young children of the president.. she was shocked, I tell ya. "Who would do that? I would never listen to that." I said, Rush Limbaugh, and, just from the look on her face, I knew she knew. Fucking hypocrits..
icaria
(97 posts)The classic Bon Iver Alex jones collaboration
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