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The Daily

Putting “Fake News” on Trial

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The families of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012 are suing a conspiracy theorist who claims the massacre was a hoax. Their lawsuits are bringing the issue of “fake news” to the courts. Guest: Elizabeth Williamson, a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times on Michael Warbro, this is The Daily.

0:09.3

Today, the families of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School

0:14.8

are suing a conspiracy theorist who claims the massacre was a hoax.

0:22.8

How their lawsuit is putting fake news on trial.

0:27.5

It's Thursday, May 24th.

0:35.5

We were dressing the middle of the gym when we heard some gunshots

0:39.5

and then everybody started kind of panicking.

0:43.5

Then we had a climb into the closets and we heard a lot more gunshots

0:49.5

than the ambulance came, but then the policeman directs us to run out of the building

0:54.5

and go to the fire department.

0:58.5

Looking newtown, Connecticut at an elementary school, Sandy Hook Elementary,

1:02.5

where NBC News says that 18 children, eight adults, plus the gunmen, have been killed.

1:09.5

In a minute, we expect the police will release the names of the victims

1:13.5

as this community begins to process the unimaginable horror of students lost at school.

1:19.5

It was the worst school shooting in American history at that time.

1:24.5

The majority of those who died today were children.

1:29.5

Beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old.

1:33.5

The children were so young, the killing was so horrible and so sudden,

1:39.5

even the president struggled to compose himself when he spoke about it.

1:44.5

They had their entire lives ahead of them.

1:47.5

Birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.

1:55.5

There was a sense that a killing this awful of children so young in such a cold-blooded way was hard to believe.

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