Including a sequel to a Pulitzer winner, a backwards fairy tale, and a masterful metafiction about financial markets.
but her book is not an account of the shooting that left 20 first-graders and six adults dead in 2012. Rather, the crime she describes is the way that conspiracy theorists and media hucksters—most notably the alt-right radio host Alex Jones—concocted a bogus narrative that the murders were faked, and fomented the harassment of families who had already suffered unimaginable loss.
Interviews with Sandy Hook parents offer a piercing counterpoint, and Williamson’s examination of the role of social media platforms in spreading this and other conspiracy theories remains dismayingly relevant. But at the center of the book is Alex Jones.
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