with the same force as the rest of my body hit the concrete, it would have been a fractured skull and potentially would have been game over, essentially. the day after the incident, the trolls got in touch. i was in my hospital bed, and this was before any family or friends had even got to me yet. you already have that shattered sense of safety. and straight after, you get someone send a message like this, that i d faked my involvement in the attack. and that was the first time i d received any sort of abusive message about the attack. you disgust me, you treasonous ginger prick. how much have they paid you, or what have they promised you for you to commit treason against your own country? we know the attack was staged and i hope they hang you. it sort of set the tone for many of the other messages that would follow. you dirty little crisis actor. in the abuse sent to travis
call soon after 9:30. in 2012, a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at a school in connecticut. i clearly believe - from the evidence. for alexjones, it presented an opportunity. he has said it was a staged government plot to take guns from americans, and he went further. no one died in 2012. ashley beckford worked at infowars for ten months starting in 2016. she explained his appeal to me. he said to me, you don t need facts, you don t need truth, you just need confidence. and so his audience is confident in everything that he says. so it doesn t matter he can say anything and people will believe them. ashley beckford was sacked because infowars was unhappy with her work. she says alex jones s motivation for spreading
i think some things around actions like terrorist attacks are so awful that some people are looking for another explanation for it, that it s notjust that obvious explanation. it becomes such a difficult thing for us to process that looking for alternative explanations for some people is even more heightened. survivors aren t just being doubted i ve been contacted by many who say they ve been abused online. travis frain, who was badly injured in the westminster bridge attack in 2017, is one of them. the attack began - on westminster bridge. a vehicle was driven into pedestrians. i five people were killed, including a police officer. others suffered - catastrophic injuries according to the - emergency services. 29 people were injured. the doctors were pretty clear that had my head hit the concrete
those things do affect particularly the susceptible people here. i ve discovered that one of the first videos claiming the manchester bombing may be a hoax was posted on the night of the attack and came from america. 0k, shall i call? the man who made it has agreed to speak to me anonymously because he s worried about the repercussions. your video was uploaded just hours after the attack happened. yeah, because, you know, myself, you know, right after these things happen, you know, the mainstream news has put it out there. i am looking into it, you know? who do you think was behind it, then? as far as who is behind it, i can t say for sure. but obviously, you know, i believe there s a lot of psychological operations taking place with government agencies, behind these, you know? have you ever been to manchester? i haven t, no.
noticed is that the more outrageous and the more bizarre, and the more wacky theories, like, that have zero evidence to back them up, often are the ones that actually get the most traction. neil sanders says while hall may believe these conspiracy theories now, he hasn t always. he says when they first discussed sandy hook, hall didn t think it was a hoax. did he used to believe this stuff when you first started working with him? no, i don t think that richard did believe it, in fact i m sure that i had a conversation with him basically saying, this is all nonsense. is it that way? it s here, it s here. richard hall didn t want to be interviewed and wouldn t answer my questions. ready? yep. so, i paid a visit to the market stall where he sells books and dvds. i can see him. 0k, ready? yep. hi, richard, it s marianna spring from the bbc. i wonder if you d be up for answering some questions? no, thank you. do you not want to talk