Alex Jones loses lawsuits over Sandy Hook "hoax" conspiracy

This isn't worthy of my time. Some people will do anything to get their name out there.

I'm old enough to recall many examples of misinformation that were believed by significant portions of the public. It's not a new phenomenon. It does seem to occur more often nowadays, though. Likely that's the result of the easier spread of such nonsense through the internet, and the easy access and distribution available there.

Even way before my youth, there were "rainmakers" and medicine shows peddling cure-alls, and the early catalogs from mail-order giants like Sears and Wards had some amazing devices that would stimulate regrowth of hair and cure various ailments with electrical shock,

We recognize such things as obvious scams and false claims now, but that may be mostly because they were exposed as such back then after having bilked many people.

Are we now any more or less susceptible to falling for misinformation? It still requires more or less the same healthy skepticism and "fool me once shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me" attitude to avoid being scammed or led down the wrong path. Probably has always been that way, and probably always will be.