‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground

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‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed spent four years following the circus created by the rightwing TV host after he claimed the Sandy Hook school shooting never happenedThere is a statistic dropped into the middle of the new HBO documentary about Alex Jones and his conspiracy-laden campaign to deny the Sandy Hook school massacre that is so startling it changes the complexion of the film.It’s tempting to see the blustering alt-right InfoWars host…