Alex Jones Sued for Defamation After Misidentifying Parkland Gunman...

[Faun]

His picture was posted numerous times on this forum. It didn't matter that they looked nothing alike, all mattered was that he was a commie liberal responsible for the Parkland shooting.

I didn't see it. Still a nothing burger though.

I doubt he's been harmed drastically by it

Yeah, what harm could possibly come to someone whose identified as a mass murderer?

This guy just his the lotto.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

This means everyone involved in a police lineup should sue.

Their pictures are put on social media?

Old school social media. In person.
Same shit. Try again.

Nobody but the victim sees the people in a police lineup. Millions of people across the world saw this man's picture on Infowars, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Also the victim goes into a police lineup knowing that only the man they point out is guilty. Infowars told millions of people that this guy, and only this guy was the killer. Not even remotely close to the same thing.

And the others in the lineup.

This means everyone involved in a police lineup should sue.

Their pictures are put on social media?

Old school social media. In person.
Same shit. Try again.

Nobody but the victim sees the people in a police lineup. Millions of people across the world saw this man's picture on Infowars, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Also the victim goes into a police lineup knowing that only the man they point out is guilty. Infowars told millions of people that this guy, and only this guy was the killer. Not even remotely close to the same thing.

And if the victim picks the wrong guy? And he makes the news?

 

[aaronleland]

This means everyone involved in a police lineup should sue.

Their pictures are put on social media?

Old school social media. In person.
Same shit. Try again.

Nobody but the victim sees the people in a police lineup. Millions of people across the world saw this man's picture on Infowars, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Also the victim goes into a police lineup knowing that only the man they point out is guilty. Infowars told millions of people that this guy, and only this guy was the killer. Not even remotely close to the same thing.

And the others in the lineup.

This means everyone involved in a police lineup should sue.

Their pictures are put on social media?

Old school social media. In person.
Same shit. Try again.

Nobody but the victim sees the people in a police lineup. Millions of people across the world saw this man's picture on Infowars, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Also the victim goes into a police lineup knowing that only the man they point out is guilty. Infowars told millions of people that this guy, and only this guy was the killer. Not even remotely close to the same thing.

And if the victim picks the wrong guy? And he makes the news?

A police line-up is a widely used technique involving law enforcement, and the victim or witness. Then there's a trial by jury where a police line-up by itself is not enough to convict a person. The whole thing is a system of due process that has been used in justice systems for centuries. What we have here is just some guy from Infowars posting a picture for millions to see and saying, "This is the guy. Go at em'." Not even close to the same thing.

And people have sued and won for false imprisonment many times before.

 

[idb]

Alex Jones admitted that he's just playing a character.
Everybody knows not to take him seriously...don't they?

 

[IsaacNewton]

Alex Jones and Infowars Are Sued for Defamation After Misidentifying Parkland Gunman

Shortly after a gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in February and killed 17 people, the conspiracy theory website Infowars claimed it had a photo of the attacker wearing “communist garb.” It showed a young man with a clenched fist in a red shirt emblazoned with a hammer and sickle and images of Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx.

But that man was not Nikolas Cruz, who was arrested two miles from the Parkland, Fla., school on Feb. 14 and later confessed to the shooting, the police said. The man in the red shirt was Marcel Fontaine, who lives 1,200 miles away in Massachusetts and has never visited Florida.

On Monday, Mr. Fontaine filed a defamation lawsuit against Infowars, one of its reporters and its right-wing founder, Alex Jones, asserting that their story misidentified him as the gunman and caused his photo to spread across social media, message boards and other websites. In the lawsuit, a lawyer for Mr. Fontaine said it appeared that Infowars published his photo simply because of his shirt.

“Mr. Jones and Infowars have long been consumed with paranoia over the prospect of communist infiltration and indoctrination,” the lawsuit, filed in Travis County District Court in Austin, Tex., said. “Over the past year alone, Infowars has featured hundreds of sensationalist articles and videos focusing on the threat of communist agitation and conspiracies.”

Mr. Fontaine declined a request for an interview, but his lawyer, Mark D. Bankston, said it was obvious that Mr. Fontaine’s shirt was not to be taken seriously. The shirt, which is called “The Communist Party,” shows Marx, the 19th century economist who wrote “The Communist Manifesto,” wearing a lampshade on his head and Stalin, Lenin, Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro drinking from red plastic cups.

“We believe that Mr. Fontaine was targeted due to the T-shirt he was wearing, and that Infowars intentionally disregarded fundamental newsroom ethics due to its desire to politicize the tragedy,” Mr. Bankston said.

Infowars did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

I remember idiots on USMB posting this man's picture for days after the Parkland shooting, even after numerous people pointed out that his "communist" t-shirt wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I didn't know the picture originated from InfoWars. Who knew Alex Jones was a jackass?

Open and shut, Infowars will settle for a couple million out of court. No other choice.