Tag: Tech
Alex Jones Faced The Parents Of Sandy Hook Shooting Victims In Court. He Acted Like It Was A Joke.
Infowars host Alex Jones was forced to answer for his years of spreading conspiracy theories as he took the stand this week in a defamation damages trial brought against him by the parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. The jury spent less…
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Alex Jones’s Second Defamation Trial Over Sandy Hook Begins. He Could Lose Even Bigger This Time.
Alex Jones’s second defamation trial brought by the families of Sandy Hook victims began in a Connecticut court Tuesday morning. The longtime talk show host and influential far-right conspiracy theorist repeatedly asserted over years to his listeners that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, where 26 people, including 20 children…
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A Sandy Hook Responder And A Victim’s Sister Gave Emotionally Devastating Testimony In Alex Jones’s Defamation Case
Aldenberg described how almost immediately he was assigned to a team within the FBI to help surviving families deal with harassment, which began even before the funerals of the victims had happened. He also noted that his first assignment after the shooting itself was providing security at a church service…
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The YouTube Channel Streaming Alex Jones’s Trial Disabled The Chat Because Of Threats To Sandy Hook Victims’ Families
As always on Law & Crime’s streams, there are hundreds of active and colorful commenters, but trial viewers and Twitter users had noted from day one that the chat was littered with the same conspiracy theories that Jones now faces paying damages for. The chat was so overrun with people…
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Tech Companies Working On Contraception Face A New Landscape After Roe
The Lowdown, founded in 2019, is a platform for reviews and advice where users discuss side effects and benefits of different types of contraception, and it connects users with medical consultations and prescriptions for birth control. Users can participate in surveys and leave reviews, which the Lowdown uses along with…
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Apps That Tell You Your Friends’ Locations Are Now A Way Of Life
But, she said she would feel a loss. Location tracking is a specific type of experience. Snap Inc. certainly thinks so: It offers “a new way to see and explore the world… a completely personalized view of the landscape,” a spokesperson said. The map portrays a subjective rather than objective…
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