Sandy Hook

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and exclusive sources and access,Sandy Hook tells the story of a school shooting and its aftermathwhen a group of parents fought to rescue the truth of what happened to their children from a frenzy of online denial and conspiracizing. On December 142012twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in NewtownConnecticutincluding twenty children barely older than toddlerswere shot and killed. It felt like a line in the sandon gun violence and safety. Insteadten years onSandy Hook has become a foundational storyand a symbol: of how false conspiracy narratives have gained traction in our world. From a tragedy almost too terrible to fathomthe mass shooting at Sandy Hook emerged as an event some people truly believe never occurredor was staged by the federal government as a pretext for seizing Americans’ firearms. In the wake of the tragedyrelatives of the victims have been accosted on the street or at events honoring their loved ones. Some have been stalked and forced into hiding. Someone fired a gun into the home of one parent. Families were harassed onlinechallenged to prove the very existence of those they lost. At the center of conspiracy theorists’ crusade is Alex JonesΓÇÖs Infowarswhere hoaxers aired noxious theories and raised money for their quest to \