Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the scene, filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against radio personality Alex Jones, who has repeatedly called the shooting fake. 
 
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 The lawsuit accuses Jones, a staunch gun rights advocate who operates Infowars, a website that routinely propagates conspiracies, of “a years-long campaign of abusive and outrageous false statements.” 
 
 Twenty children and six educators died in the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut, school. 
 
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 “While the nation recoiled at the terrible reality of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Alex Jones saw an opportunity,” the families’ attorney Josh Koskoff said. “He went on a sustained attack that has lasted for years, accusing shattered family members of being actors, stating as fact that the shooting itself was a hoax and inciting others to act on these malicious lies.” 
 
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 The plaintiffs are the parents of four children killed at Sandy Hook -- Jacqueline and Mark Barden, parents of Daniel; Nicole and Ian Hockley, parents of Dylan; Francine and David Wheeler, parents of Ben; and Jennifer Hensel and Jeremy Richman, parents of Avielle -- as well as Donna Soto, Carlee Soto-Parisi, Carlos Soto and Jillian Soto, the mother and siblings of first-grade teacher Victoria Leigh Soto; and Erica Lafferty-Garbatini, the daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung. FBI agent Bill Aldenberg is also a plaintiff. 
 
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 “As a result of Jones’ campaign,” the families and Aldenberg said they have been “forced to endure malicious and cruel abuse at the hands of ruthless unscrupulous people.” 
 
 Their lawsuit also names Wolfgang Halbig, a Florida man who founded the now-defunct website SandyHookJustice, his associate Cory Sklanka and Infowars itself. 
 
 The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court in Bridgeport, cites Jones’ public assertions, including one from Sept. 25, 2014, in which he said video from the day of the shooting showed that the same children were cycled in and out of the school and that no emergency helicopters were sent to the school, and were “clearly staged.” 
 
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 The lawsuit quotes Jones as saying on Jan. 13, 2015, “Yeah, so, Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured." 
 
 The plaintiffs called such statements, among others, “outrageous, deeply painful and defamatory.” 
 
 The lawsuit seeks damages of an unspecified amount but in excess of $15,000. 

 Six families of victims killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are reportedly suing Infowars owner Alex Jones. 
 
 ABC News reported that the six families and one FBI agent who responded to the shooting filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Jones of defamation. 
 
 This is not the first lawsuit against Jones by Sandy Hook families. Earlier this year, the parents of two children killed in the shooting accused Jones of spreading lies about the shooting and the victims that have resulted in death threats. 
 
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 At least two other lawsuits reportedly accuse Jones of defamation related to Sandy Hook. 
 
 Twenty children and six adults were killed in the shooting. Jones has suggested the shooting wasn’t real. 
 
 “I’ve watched a lot of soap operas, and I’ve seen actors before,” Jones said in 2016. “And I know when I’m watching a movie and when I’m watching something real.” 
 
 Jones defended himself against the earlier lawsuits in a YouTube video, saying that he believed the massacre happened and accusing the media of taking his comments out of context. He said that he believed the lawsuits would be thrown out. 
 
 He later defended his comments about Sandy Hook in an interview, saying that he was playing “devil’s advocate” by covering “every position” on the topic. 
 
 “I tend to believe that children probably did die there,” he said. “But then you look at all the other evidence on the other side. I can see how other people believe that nobody died there.” 
 
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– Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and an FBI agent who responded to the scene are suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation, citing “a years-long campaign of abusive and outrageous false statements,” reports ABC. Jones, who operates the conspiracy site Infowars, has repeatedly called the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting that took the lives of 20 children and six school staff members a hoax. The statements have incited abuse and death threats against the families, according to the Hill. Jones at various times has said that the same children were cycled in and out of the Newtown, Conn., school and that no emergency helicopters were deployed to the scene. He has said that the scene was staged and called parents of the murdered children liars. The plaintiffs called his statements “outrageous, deeply painful, and defamatory.” Their suit also names Infowars itself, as well as two men associated with the now-defunct site SandyHookJustice. At least two other defamation lawsuits from Sandy Hook survivors have been filed against Jones.