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Search results for "Alex Jones has avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes"

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Instagram posts stated on October 16, 2022 in an Instagram post:
A video shows an actor “getting into character before his press interview less than 24 hours after the supposed killing of his 6-year-old daughter."
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 20, 2022
Viral image stated on June 04, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Photo shows “the Sandy Hook girls that did not die like they said they did!”
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 13, 2024
Hillary Clinton stated on September 01, 2016 in x:
Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."
By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby• September 1, 2016
X posts stated on May 14, 2022 in Twitter posts:
The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York was a “false flag event.”
By Gabrielle Settles• May 18, 2022
Instagram posts stated on October 16, 2022 in Instagram post:
“Millions” of people from International Monetary Fund member countries are at risk of being placed in “COVID camps.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• October 21, 2022
Alex Jones stated on November 14, 2021 in an InfoWars video:
"Fauci admits Covid vax doesn't work"
By Vivian Lam• November 23, 2021
TikTok posts stated on November 14, 2021 in a post:
The COVID-19 vaccines “failed miserably” in animal trials and are “a type of gene therapy that several top scientists warn will kill you.”
By Monique Curet• November 17, 2021
Facebook posts stated on July 03, 2023 in a Facebook reel:
Bill Gates is behind the five recent cases of malaria in the United States.
By Sara Swann• July 6, 2023
X posts stated on May 29, 2022 in a tweet:
TV interviews with two different men who are each identified as Uvalde victim's father show the Robb Elementary School mass shooting was staged.
By Jeff Cercone• May 31, 2022
X posts stated on March 26, 2024 in an X post:
Maryland bridge collapse was a false flag operation to distract from other events.
By Jeff Cercone• March 26, 2024
Facebook posts stated on August 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“How many of you still don't know that Michelle Obama was born Michael Lavaughn Robinson and is a man?”
By Madison Czopek• October 31, 2020
Ted Nugent stated on June 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Three mass shootings were meant to distract from Hillary Clinton controversies.
By Jeff Cercone• June 16, 2022
Facebook posts stated on December 08, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Images that show a 90-year-old UK woman receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appeared online in a CNN news story in October.
By Samantha Putterman• December 9, 2020
Instagram posts stated on December 30, 2022 in a post:
“Ray Epps confessed to Jan. 6 Committee he ‘orchestrated’ attack on Capitol”
By Gabrielle Settles• January 6, 2023
Roland Gutierrez stated on July 18, 2018 in a campaign email blast:
Says Pete Gallego canceled a "planned meeting with the families of Sandy Hook victims."
By Jasper Scherer• July 27, 2018
John Fredericks stated on February 28, 2015 in a radio show.:
Every illegal immigrant "can be eligible for up to $36,000 to $38,000 in earned income tax credits without paying a dime in."
By Warren Fiske• March 9, 2015
Marco Rubio stated on March 04, 2010 in a press release:
"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."
By Aaron Sharockman• March 12, 2010
Philadelphia Daily News stated on April 14, 2016 in In an editorial:
If you don't buy cigarettes at your local supermarket, your grocery bill won't go up a dime. The same is true of the sugary drink tax. If passed, you can avoid paying the tax by not buying sugary drinks.
By Mark Dent• May 11, 2016
Everytown for Gun Safety stated on June 11, 2014 in an infographic that went viral:
There have been 74 "school shootings in America since Sandy Hook."
By Lauren Carroll• June 13, 2014
Facebook posts stated on May 24, 2022 in Facebook post:
This image shows the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• May 25, 2022

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By W. Gardner Selby• December 31, 2016

Alex Jones said Sandy Hook slayings 'pretty much didn't happen'

By W. Gardner Selby• April 18, 2018

Why Infowars’ Alex Jones was banned from Apple, Facebook, Youtube and Spotify

By Manuela Tobias• August 7, 2018

Why do some people think mass shootings are staged every time?

By Daniel Funke• August 8, 2019

False flags: They’re real, but far less widespread than social media suggest

By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• February 8, 2022

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By Amy Sherman• October 18, 2022

How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry

By Bill McCarthy• September 9, 2021

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By Bill McCarthy, Amy Sherman• March 25, 2022

How are school shootings defined?

By Chris Nichols• February 28, 2018

Have there been more US mass shootings than days in 2024? Common statistic needs context

By Amy Sherman• February 16, 2024

How many mass shootings have occurred since Uvalde tragedy?

By Nusaiba Mizan• June 10, 2022

Fact-checking the Democratic claim that Amazon doesn't pay taxes

By Miriam Valverde• February 8, 2020

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Fact-checking misinformation about the Uvalde school shooting

By Madison Czopek• May 27, 2022

Booker latest Democrat to exaggerate gun violence statistic

By Louis Jacobson• April 4, 2013

Does a secretary pay higher taxes than a millionaire?

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Mailbag: 'You are a joke, and your operation is a sham'

By Louis Jacobson• October 18, 2013