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M.I.A. has clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after she was criticised earlier this week.Yesterday (October 13), the singer faced a backlash for a tweet which compared alt-right figure Alex Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” vaccines.Jones was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.“If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” M.I.A.
wrote, before comparing Jones’ misinformation to “Pfizer lying” in a follow-up tweet.In a new interview with The Guardian about her new album ‘MATA’, out today (October 14), M.I.A. was asked about her vaccine stance, to which she responded: “The language they use to attack anybody is to say: ‘Oh, she’s an anti-vaxxer’ or blah blah blah.
And it’s like, no, not really.“I know three people who have died from taking the vaccine and I know three people who have died from COVID. This is in my life, in my experience.
If anyone is going to deny that experience and gaslight me, saying: ‘No, that’s not your experience,’ then what is the point of anything?”She added: “What is the existence that you are trying to protect by giving me a vaccine if I can’t even have an experience and process that information in my own brain and come to some sort of conclusion? And live within a society where I have to make choices every day?“There’s this weird idea that we’re all free, and that we fight for everything, and we can say what we want, but on the other hand, I feel like there’s even more of a crackdown on that.”Elsewhere in the interview M.I.A. discussed her Sandy Hook
.Ready to get back out there? Former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey opened up about how she’s been handling her split from Mike Hill — and sharing her hopes for finding love again.
M.I.A. has revealed that she’ll no longer be involved in this year’s GQ Men Of The Year Awards, with the magazine severing ties with her over controversial tweets about vaccines.Last Thursday (October 13), the artist – whose real name is Mathangi Arulpragasam – shared a series of tweets comparing vaccines for COVID-19 to Alex Jones’ reprehensible conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
Olivia Wilde is not a fan of the constant hate she receives for just living her life.
Alex Jones unsurprisingly has zero remorse. On Wednesday, a jury handed down nearly $1 billion in damages to the families who sued him for his comments regarding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. But they can’t get an ounce of remorse out of him.
The hosts of “The View” went off on InfoWars host Alex Jones on Thursday morning’s show, calling him “demonic” and “a vile scumbag” for his claims about the Sandy Hook massacre. Host Sara Haines even went so far as to say that, beyond monetary punishment, Jones deserves to feel “even a fraction of the pain” endured by the parents of those kids.The discussion came following the latest decision in the ongoing litigation against Jones, in which he was ordered to pay almost $1 billion in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims, for his repeated claims that the deadly shooting was a hoax.
M.I.A. has garnered backlash for a tweet she sent comparing alt-right figure Alex Jones’s falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” COVID-19 vaccines and suggesting the latter, too, should “pay for lying”.In a tweet shared today (October 13), the rapper and singer referenced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.
Alex Jones was not in a Connecticut courtroom today as a nearly $1 billion judgement was read against him in the defamation case brought by families of children murdered in the Sandy Hook School Shooting, whom he has repeatedly and erroneously accused of being so-called crisis actors. But Jones did find the time to do a simulcast mocking the judgement — and by extension the families — as it was read.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Right-wing conspiracy figure Alex Jones’ company has already filed for bankruptcy protection, and it’s not clear how much of the staggering $965 million verdict reached Tuesday he’ll actually wind up paying to the 15 plaintiffs in the defamation case about his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Jones plans to appeal the massive monetary damages that a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay, which comes after a judgment against him in August awarding $49.3 million to the family of a Sandy Hook victim in a separate case in Texas. But legal experts say Jones, founder of Infowars — which has been banned by all major internet services — is almost certainly ruined financially.
ordered the nearly $1 billion verdict. The decision marks the second multimillion penalty faced by Jones after a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages to the family of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis in August.
A Connecticut jury ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion to families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for spreading lies about the massacre. Six adults and 20 children were killed during the shooting in December 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, just 20 miles away from where victims' families gave tearful testimony in Waterbury Superior Court during the trial. Jones repeatedly told millions of listeners on his Infowars show that the shooting was a hoax and the victims were crisis actors. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones attempts to answer questions about his emails asked by Mark Bankston, lawyer for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, during trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022.
2ND UPDATE, 12:50 PM: Parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims broke down in tears today as a jury in Waterbury, CT, awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for defamation, slander and emotional distress against Infowars founder Alex Jones, who has claimed the massacre was a hoax.
Ethan Shanfeld Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of $965 million in damages to the plaintiffs of the defamation trial surrounding his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. The 15 plaintiffs of the case included the relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, as well as a former FBI agent suing Jones. A Connecticut jury reached a unanimous verdict Wednesday afternoon before the judge read aloud a detailed report of the various damages owed to each plaintiff by Jones and his media company, Free Speech Systems. Jones had already been found liable for defamation for spreading disinformation about the shooting, which killed 20 students and six faculty members in December 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, also killed his mother and himself.
Alex Jones will be paying hundreds of millions of dollars.
reported that, per their unnamed sources, federal agents “determined months ago they had assembled a viable criminal case against the younger Biden.”This week has also seen critical response of Sean Hannity for his handling of Hunter Biden’s history as a drug addict. On Monday, the Fox News host released a private voicemail President Biden left his son in an attempt to embarrass and disparage the Biden family – a move that has been widely considered “grotesque” and monstrous online. “Replace the name Biden with Trump and imagine how the mob and the media would be covering all of this,” Hannity scoffed.In conversation with President Biden Tuesday, Tapper asked point blank how he feels about his son’s ongoing troubles.
The White House said Tuesday that President Biden believes Saudi Arabia has effectively sided with Russia’s war aims in Ukraine following the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance’s announcement last week that it would cut oil production. "We believe by the decision that OPEC+ made last week, (Saudi Arabia is) certainly aligning themselves with Russia," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Tuesday briefing.