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Sandy Hook

American  

noun

  1. a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.


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Pratt returned to “The Alex Jones Show” in 2017, when the host was under fire for falsely portraying the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut as a hoax.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Jones placed Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, into bankruptcy in 2022 before filing for personal bankruptcy later that year, after courts ordered him to pay damages to Sandy Hook victim families.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

“This is the culmination of a two-year-long effort to get some justice for the Sandy Hook families,” Collins said in a LinkedIn post.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2026

Infowars faces liquidation after families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 won a legal case worth hundreds of millions of dollars against Jones for spreading false claims about the 2012 massacre.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

But two days after the shooting at Sandy Hook, when Barack traveled to Newtown to speak at a prayer vigil being held for the victims, I couldn’t bring myself to join him.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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