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The two lawsuits filed Tuesday represent the first civil action taken by parents accusing Jones of defamation. One was filed by Leonard Pozner and his former wife, Veronique De La Rosa, and the other was filed by Neil Heslin. Their sons, Noah Pozner and Jesse Heslin, both 6, were killed at Sandy Hook.

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The suits focus on comments made by Jones in the past year. In a segment on his radio show called “Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed,” which aired April 22, 2017, Jones highlighted an interview that Veronique De La Rosa did with Anderson Cooper of CNN after the shooting. While they are standing outside a downtown Newtown building, Cooper turns his head to face her.

During that quick head movement, Cooper’s nose seems to disappear — evidence, Jones said, that the interview with De La Rosa was conducted in a studio. In reality, the glitch is known as a compression artifact, a distortion that is common in video encoding.

When he turns, his nose disappears repeatedly because the green screen isn’t set right

Jones suggests it means they are both actors. “When he turns, his nose disappears repeatedly because the green screen isn’t set right,” he said.

A few months later, in June, Jones was profiled on NBC’s “Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly,” which brought up his past comments about Sandy Hook. Kelly also interviewed Heslin, who recalled seeing his dead son.

“I held my son with a bullet hole through his head,” Heslin told her.

But a week later in an Infowars video, Owen Shroyer, who works for the site, argued that it was “not possible” that Heslin held his dead son because the medical examiner said he showed photographs to the parents to identify their children.