A Connecticut jury on Wednesday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion for defaming the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting victims.
Misinformation purveyors often use a variety of rhetorical techniques to create misleading impressions without making demonstrably false statements.
Indeed, misinformation purveyors often use a variety of rhetorical techniques to create misleading impressions without making demonstrably false statements.
These different layers provide a multiplicity of points of resistance to the efforts to hold misinformation purveyors accountable.
But they are not a solution to the lie machines built by incredibly savvy, incredibly cynical pundits like Alex Jones.