HBO’s “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” explores the mainstreaming of “grift” in a post-truth era.
AUSTIN — Robbie Parker’s 6-year-old daughter, Emilie, had been dead for less than 48 hours, gunned down alongside 19 of her classmates and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went on Infowars and claimed Parker was “a soap opera actor” who’d made it all up.
“It’s just a drip, drip, drip of constant undermining of your feeling of safety and security while you’re trying to grieve for your 6-year-old child who was murdered unexpectedly in the classroom,” says director Dan Reed. “The cumulative harm is really I hope what comes out of the film.”“the most egregious defamation case in U.S. history” — the families have yet to see a cent. Jones has filed for bankruptcy while also being“In practical terms, Alex Jones has not been silenced yet.
But nothing he documented in his film has really diminished Jones’s power and reach. “So, the bigger point is, ‘Well, is this now how we’re going to establish truth? By taking people to court with lawsuits that take years and years to unwind?’” says Reed. “... Trying to take your ex-president to court is proving very difficult, for telling lies on a vast scale.
The lawyers also show that Jones’s telling of Sandy Hook lies is directly tied to his income. Every time Infowars floated a hoax theory, viewership went up, as did sales of his supplements, measured by “spikes in engagement.”
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