Sandy Hook Victim's Father Details Harassment In 60 Minutes Story

NEWTOWN, CT — Some family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims have had to go to great lengths in a seemingly never-ending battle to avoid harassment and threats from conspiracy theorists.

Lenny Pozner, the father of Sandy Hook victim Noah, 6, appeared on a 60 Minutes episode to talk about how he has had to move more than six times to keep his family safe from harassment and death threats. He has taken harassers and conspiracy theorists to court after they alleged that the shooting didn’t happen. 60 Minutes created a disguise for Pozner during the interview.

The 60 Minutes episode focused on online harassment and the controversial Section 230 law that gives social media companies and others broad legal protections for third-party posted content.

“There is very little that you can do actually and even when you try to do something, most of the time it gets ignored, nothing gets done,” Pozner said during the interview.

Pozner founded the HONR Network, which advocates for better harassment protection. He wrote an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that said the company’s policies enable harassment of the families of shooting victims.

Pozner has taken some conspiracy theorists to court over defamation. He won a $450,000 defamation lawsuit against a conspiracy theorist author who claimed that Noah’s death certificate was fake.

In one instance a woman was sentenced to five months in prison for leaving Pozner a death threat voicemail — many more threats were made anonymously and are virtually impossible to trace, according to 60 Minutes.

Watch the full 60 Minutes interview here.