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The father of a child who died during the Sandy Hook school shooting has been given a full facial disguise before being interviewed on television, to protect him from being identified by crazed conspiracy theorists.<br>Lenny Pozner's son Noah, six, was the youngest victim of the December 14, 2012 massacre of 20 children and six staff.<br>Since very early on in the aftermath, Pozner was singled out by conspiracy theorists claiming that the murders never happened, and that it was all part of a Barack Obama-led plot to rid the country of guns.<br>'I was being attacked for  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-chua-huong-dong-huong-tich-ha-noi-tour-du-lich-le-hoi-chua-huong-tu-ha-noi.html tour Du lịch Chùa Hương] the memory of my son. My son's very short life was being attacked, and I just wasn't going to stand for that,' said Pozner, appearing heavily disguised on 60 Minutes, in a segment discussing a campaign to have social media companies held responsible for the content they allow online.<br>         Lenny Pozner appeared in disguise on 60 Minutes, to avoid conspiracy theorists finding him<br>         A team of theatre make up specialists worked to alter Pozner's features for the interview<br>         Pozner was given a wig, prosthetics and fake skin in a bid to disguise him from attackers<br>He has fought back against the trolls, winning settlements against those spreading the lies and campaigning for Facebook to remove the conspiracy theory posts.<br>In June 2017 Lucy Richards, 57, was sentenced to five months in a Florida jail for having sent messages to Pozner, including one that read: 'Death is coming to you real soon and nothing you can do about it.'  <br>   RELATED ARTICLES  [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next]     [/news/article-7839877/Alex-Jones-InfoWars-pay-100-000-legal-fees-Sandy-Hook-victims-family.html  Alex Jones and InfoWars must pay more than $100,000 in legal...] [/news/article-7152707/Sandy-Hook-families-switch-tactics-hoaxers-defensive.html  Father of six-year-old boy killed in Sandy Hook wins...]    <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>In June 2019 Pozner won a defamation case against editors of a book that claimed no one died at the Newtown, Connecticut, school.<br>A summary judgment found that James H.<br><br>Fetzer and Mike Palecek defamed Pozner with statements that his son's death certificate was a fake.<br>In October 2019 a Wisconsin jury determined the amount that Fetzer must pay Pozner for making defamatory statements, with the foreperson writing in '$450,000' on the form.<br>In December 2019 the host of the InfoWars show, Alex Jones, was ordered by a Texas court to pay $100,000 in damages to another father.<br><br>Pozner's case against Jones is still pending. <br>         Pozner's son Noah was six when he was murdered at Sandy Hook school in December 2012<br>         Lucy Richards (pictured) was sentenced to five months in prison for sending him death threats<br>Pozner's aggressive countering of the lies has made him a particular target for conspiracy theorists - he has received multiple death threats, including one voicemail that saw a woman sentenced to prison,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-chua-huong-dong-huong-tich-ha-noi-tour-du-lich-le-hoi-chua-huong-tu-ha-noi.html Tour Chùa Hương] and has moved house seven times for safety.<br>'Conversations denying the tragedy.<br><br>Accusing the government of staging it,' he said, when asked on 60 Minutes what form the conspiracy theories took.<br>'That Noah did not die; that I'm not Noah's father. It all revolves around the notion that these are staged shootings, scripted events, that I'm an actor, that I'm paid, to fake the death of a child.'<br>Pozner founded the HONR Network to help those who faced similar situations.<br>         Noah was one of 20 children and six staffers murdered in the Connecticut school in 2012<br>         Mourners embrace following funeral services for six year-old Noah in December 2012<br>         Tributes to Noah and the other children are seen at a memorial for the victims in 2012<br>       He has helped Maatje Benassi, who in March was labeled Patient Zero because she had been in Wuhan, China, in October 2019.<br>She had represented the U.S.<br><br>military in an armed forces version of the Olympics; was a cyclist and an Army reservist who served in Iraq.<br>In March an article about her in her local newspaper caught the [http://www.newsweek.com/search/site/attention attention] of a deep state conspiracist named George Webb and he filmed a video accusing her of being part of a plot to spread COVID, posted by a conspiracy theorist on YouTube that had already drawn hundreds of thousands of views.<br>She began getting death threats.<br>'We're going to put a bullet in her skull.<br><br>Let's load up the trucks. Let's go get them. Let's hang them,' she recounted, adding that her address had also been posted online.<br>Both are now campaigning to try and make social media networks more accountable for their content.<br>