Debunking sandy hook conspiracy
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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories
Claims that the 2012 mass shooting was a US government plot
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and later committed suicide.[1] A number of fringe figures have promoted conspiracy theories that doubt or dispute what occurred at Sandy Hook. Various conspiracy theorists have claimed, for example, that the massacre was actually orchestrated by the U.S. government as part of an elaborate plot to promote stricter gun control laws.[2]
The more common conspiracy theory, adopted initially by James Fetzer, James Tracy, and others, and further popularized by Alex Jones, denied that the massacre actually occurred, asserting that it was faked. The massacre was described by Fetzer and Tracy as a classified training exercise involving members of federal and local law enforcement, the news media, and crisis actors, which they claim was modeled on Operation Closed Campus, an Iowa school-shooting drill that was canceled in 2011 amid threats and public outcry. Jones described the shooting incident as "synthetic, comp
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SOCIETAL AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN THE US
Laura Vasile, Maria Zuppello, Counter Threat Strategic Communications (CTSC) Team
Week of Monday, January 17, 2022
Sandy Hook Elementary School[1]
Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in 2012, conspiracy theories about school shootings have risen exponentially.[2] The growing use of social networks and hyper-competition between online information and traditional media are among the factors that have increased the misinformation used to feed these conspiracy theories.[3] These beliefs likely have a social and political impact since they likely weaken people's trust in institutions and spawn more extensive conspiracy theories. Media and educational institutions should increase awareness and information monitoring, while social media platforms should update their algorithms and software, and enhance both the quantity and quality of human moderators to contain the spread of these theories.
The most popular school shooting conspiracy theories to date concern the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, US. They posit that the school shooting was a hoax arranged by the government to increase the scope of gun control laws and that those i