Wednesday marks 10 years since a gunman opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Survivor Jackie Hegarty, now 17 years old, remembers the somber anniversary in a new video series called “Dear World: Newtown.” The organization’s founder Robert X. Fogarty also joins to talk about the project.
Ronda Rousey, a former professional mixed martial artist, apologized for amplifying a Sandy Hook conspiracy theory 11 years ago, after the incident resurfaced in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session earlier this week. In a lengthy statement she posted on social media Thursday night, Rousey recounted watching a conspiracy video about the mass shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed at a Connecticut elementary school, and then reposting the video on Twitter in early 2013.
Conspiracy theories about the massacre, often promoted by right-wing figures, have been rampant and are deeply damaging. Families of the victims and survivors have experienced death threats and harassment for years as a result. Infowars host Alex Jones was a major proponent of the Sandy Hook conspiracy theories. After a prolonged legal battle with the victims’ families, Jones was ordered in 2022 to pay them a total of $1.5 billion in damages.
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