The fate of Alex Jones is a small battle won in the war against alternative facts | Tom Chatfield
The trial of Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, who for years propagated the lie that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, has produced some remarkable moments over the past week, not least when Jones was told that his own attorney had accidentally released two years' worth of Jones's text messages to his legal adversaries. For sheer schadenfreude, however, it's hard to beat an exchange between Jones and judge Maya Guerra Gamble in which she reminded him that you must tell the truth while you testify".
I believe what I said was true," Jones answered. The judge's riposte has since been shared hundreds of thousands of times: You believe everything you say is true, but it isn't. Your beliefs do not make something true. That is what we're doing here. Just because you claim to think something is true does not make it true."
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