On this day seven years ago a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,

20 children along with six adults were killed.

Incredibly for the families, the nightmare did not end with the deaths of their children.

The families of the murdered children became the targets of conspiracy theorists

who decided that the massacre did not happen, the children

were not real, or that the parents had been paid to stage the attack.

And not only did they share these false and hateful messages among themselves, they began harassing

families of the murdered children.

One of those parents, Lenny Posner, made it his mission to fight back, not only to honor

the memory of his murdered son Noah, but to protect his surviving family members and earlier this year he won a defamation case against one of those conspiracy theorists and he's with us now

Lenny Posner thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you.

And if I could just say as a human being, I mean as a parent,

I'm very sorry for the loss of your son and I wish it were different.

Thank you. I wanted to start by asking

how soon after the massacre did the conspiracy theories start like how did you

first hear about all this? The conspiracy theories started the same day they

started right away. I wasn't paying attention to the news or social media for weeks so I wasn't aware of it at the time but as soon as I went

online I noticed the talk of crisis actors and all kinds of theories were swirling around.

So as soon as I saw this being discussed,

I immediately knew that this was going to be an issue

and this wasn't going to be something that was just going to blow over.

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