Disaster Trolls: 10. The Billion Dollar Question
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
News breaks of a landmark US court ruling about the Sandy Hook shooting, raising the hopes of victims of conspiracy theories in the UK, in their own struggles for accountability.
When a Connecticut jury orders Infowars host Alex Jones to pay almost a billion dollars in damages for the false claims he promoted, Marianna Spring is contacted by many of the people she has spoken to during the series.
She is also sent reaction by other bereaved relatives of terror victims, who have been targeted with conspiracy theories and online abuse. In this final episode, Marianna reflects on her investigation. She learns more about the libel action that Martin Hibbert, a survivor of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is taking steps to bring against the conspiracy show host Richard D Hall. There is news from YouTube, and a new video from Hall.
This episode contains audio from Richard D Hall’s website.
Presenter: Marianna Spring Producer: Ant Adeane Editor: Ed Main
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| 0:00.0 | An early start here. |
| 0:02.7 | It's time to kick off. |
| 0:04.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:05.8 | What a line-up. |
| 0:07.2 | Oh, thanks very much. |
| 0:08.3 | We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:10.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:14.1 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:17.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:19.0 | BBC Sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:24.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:28.2 | It was half-time at a football game in London. I was watching Spurs, my team, playing the |
| 0:33.6 | Champions League. And I checked my phone and suddenly I just saw this news breaking on Twitter. |
| 0:40.3 | Jones has been handed these damages of almost a billion dollars. |
| 0:45.3 | A jury in the US state of Connecticut has ordered the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay damages of almost a billion dollars |
| 0:53.3 | after he falsely claimed that a school shooting in |
| 0:56.2 | 2012 was a hoax. |
| 0:57.9 | And what is the largest defamation suit payout ever in American history? |
| 1:02.5 | I kind of couldn't believe my eyes. |
| 1:04.1 | And then there was a BBC news notification. |
| 1:05.9 | I thought, oh wow, okay, this is real, this is happening. |
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