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Why Dan Reed Wanted to Do a Doc on Alex Jones and Sandy Hook: ‘We Are Sleepwalking Into This Era of Fantasy and Lies Becoming Mainstream’
'Leaving Neverland' director Dan Reed filmed Alex Jones on trial for his SXSW Doc about the InfoWars founder, 'The Truth vs. Alex Jones'
British director Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) spent four years filming Sandy Hook Elementary parents as they attempt to hold Alex Jones — the infamous talk-news conspiracist guru of InfoWars — accountable for the lies he spread about their children’s murders in 2012. The outcome was America’s biggest-ever defamation verdict, with nearly $1.5 billion awarded by juries in the two states to the families, Not surprisingly Jones, who called the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax and was accused of using the tragedy to help sell dietary supplement on his site, subsequently declared bankruptcy. So I felt compelled to call the lawyers who were dealing with it and say, “I want to talk to your clients” because clearly having your child murdered in elementary school at the age of 6 or 7 is bad enough.
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