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Alex Jones’ Infowars and two other affiliated companies have filed for bankruptcy protection, as the right-wing talk host faces potential damages to families of the victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. Other companies that filed for Chapter 11 protection were IWHealth and Prison Planet TV. The filings, made in…

A Connecticut judge today ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre, which is the deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. history. That day, the shooter killed 26 people, including 20 kids under eight years old. Jones has repeatedly asserted…

Mark Zuckerberg defended the social network’s decision to keep InfoWars on the platform, illustrating the tension between Facebook’s mission to allow people of all viewpoints to express themselves while also preventing harm. In an interview with Recode Decode host Kara Swisher, the 34-year-old chief executive talked…

On the fifth year mark of the horrific mass shooting that left dead 20 children and six adult staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the tragedy is being recalled and its victims honored by Hollywood celebrities, politicians and many of the journalists and pundits who covered the massacre. CNN’s Ja…

NBC News recruited Tom Brokaw to offer an olive branch to Sandy Hook elementary school parents for Megyn Kelly’s interview with conspiracy theorist/hatemonger/Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones on Kelly’s Father’s Day broadcast. Brokaw delivered an editorial that concluded the program, arguing that the “reach and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, whose documentary chronicles the pain and suffering of the parents of murdered children Daniel Barden, Benjamin Wheeler and Dylan Hockley in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, have pulled their feature documentary from Cinemark…

The analysis comes from NATO‘s John Fithian after he was asked at a press meeting why Hollywood produces so many R-rated films — despite the evidence he presented this morning showing that family friendly films typically fare better at the box office. “It's cool to be Quentin Tarantino,” he says. While lauding the the…

A made-for-TV movie related to December’s Newtown shooting tragedy caused an uproar when its director revealed that he’s planning to film in neighboring Ridgefield, Connecticut — just 20 miles away from where a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six adults before taking his own life. According to the AP, director…