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from shelves to settle claims against its publisher. “My face-to-face interactions with Mr. Pozner have led me to believe that Mr. Pozner is telling the truth about the death of his son,” Dave Gahary, the principal officer at publisher Moon Rock Books, said Monday. “I extend my most heartfelt and sincere apology to the Pozner family.” Pozner has spent years pushing back against the swarm of Sandy Hook “truthers” who have harassed him, subjected him to death threats, and claimed that his son never existed.
His fight has been joined by others who lost loved ones in the massacre. After enduring harassment online and in person for years, some have decided to debunk the rampant conspiracy theories. The conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook shooting did not happen, and the grieving parents were actually “crisis actors,” was aggressively promoted by Alex Jones on the Infowars website. Jones has since claimed he had a “form of psychosis” while pushing the conspiracy theory.

Fight deepfakes with cyberweapons and sanctions, experts tell Congress (Jack Corrigan, Defense One)
Social media companies and the federal government must help fight hyper-realistic misinformation, witnesses told the House Intelligence Committee.

Adapting to rising flood insurance premiums on the coast (Jessica Trufant, The Patriot Ledger)
Some East Coast homeowners found lower rates with private insurance; others elevated their homes above the flood zone to avoid having to buy insurance. Some have kept premiums down by not filing claims when their homes flood.

Trump says U.S. agency will begin removing millions of illegal immigrants (Reuters)
President Trump tweeted Monday evening that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin removing “millions” of undocumented immigrants next week. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump tweeted. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.” The president’s reference to mass arrests is an apparent nod to a long-planned operation to arrest migrant families in a “blitz operation” across the U.S., The Washington Post reported. Such operations by ICE are usually kept under wraps. The U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement this month in which Mexico has agreed to take in Central American immigrants seeking asylum until their cases are heard in the U.S. There are approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., with the majority from Mexico and Central American countries.