Alex Jones

Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, testified that he has endured online abuse, ...

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The parents of a child who was murdered during the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting delivered emotional testimony in a Texas court on Tuesday, telling a jury that ...

Lubit told the court that Lewis and Heslin "are very, very frightened." Jones has lashed out at the judicial proceedings taking place, baselessly claiming last week that he was being tried in Texas before a "kangaroo court." But a hearing is scheduled on Wednesday in which W. Marc Schwartz, the chief restructuring officer for Free Speech Systems, is expected to testify. It seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify. "Mr. Jones, you may not say to this jury that you complied with discovery. Jones argued he simply had "tried to find out what actually happened." In a remarkable moment in court, Lewis directly spoke to Jones, who was in the courtroom after the trial broke for lunch. Fighting back tears at times, Heslin told the jury that Jones, through his conspiratorial media organization Infowars, "tarnished the honor and legacy" of his son. "It definitely negatively impacts the healing process." I fear for my safety and my family' safety and their life." Heslin called that absence "a cowardly act." The jury hearing the case will determine how much in damages Jones will have to pay the parents, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, who won a default judgement against him earlier this year.

Often speaking directly to InfoWars host Alex Jones, the mother of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School testified ...

Heslin says in the episode: “I held my son with a bullet hole through his head.” She said she has not felt safe and has had to keep a gun at her home for the sake of her surviving son. “The ripple effect is enormous because of the platform that you have. Judges in Texas and Connecticut have already issued default judgments against Jones, which found him liable for defamation for pushing the Sandy Hook hoax claim. “I don’t think you understand the fear you perpetuate, not just to the victim’s family but to our family, our friends and any survivor from that school.” The parents, both of whom testified Tuesday, have asked that Jones pay $150 million for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The parents of Sandy Hook victim, Jesse Lewis, testified Tuesday about the impact conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has had on their lives.

"I can tell you that they are terrified, but they very much intend to continue this saga and finish this trial because they know a lot of people around the world are watching them," he said. "I question every big event, and a lot of times it turns out that we have not been told the truth." Lewis and Heslin were the last two witnesses for this stage of the trial in their case against Jones. Later this week, jurors will be asked to determine how much the founder of the InfoWars media system and his main company, Free Speech Systems, must pay in damages for defamation and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. A monetary award, on the other hand, is important, he added: "There has got to be a strong deterrent for Alex Jones to stop peddling his propaganda. During his testimony, a class picture of Jesse was shown to the court that had been taken about two weeks before his murder. I never even said your name until this case came to court." I don't think he is capable of a sincere apology," Heslin said. Often those harassing him mention Jones or his Austin-based InfoWars. The encounters reopen the wounds of losing Jesse, he said. "I think it's a cowardly act of Alex Jones not facing me here in this courtroom," he said. Because you made a lot of money while you said it." "I feel very good about being here today to face Alex Jones and hold him accountable for what he said and did to me." "I know you know that, and that's the problem.

Bereaved parents of Jesse Lewis, 6, killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, say Infowars host Alex Jones's conspiracy theories left them in anguish for ...

“It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this — that we have to implore you … to get you to stop lying,” Lewis said. “The internet had questions. I had questions.” “I know you know that. Lewis stressed that she was not part of any “deep state” conspiracy theory. Heslin, who took the stand before Jones arrived at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin on Tuesday, spoke of his grief — compounded with death threats and abuse from strangers that led the parents to fear for their own lives.

The parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre say conspiracy theorist Alex Jones made their lives a “living hell” by ...

Last September, Guerra admonished Jones in her default judgment over his failure to turn over documents requested by the Sandy Hook families. To restore the honor and legacy of my son,” Heslin said when Jones wasn’t there. A key segment of the case is a 2017 Infowars broadcast that said Heslin didn’t hold his son. At stake in the trial is how much Jones will pay. Jones later took the stand himself, initially being combative with the judge, who had asked him to answer his own attorney's question. “It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this — that we have to implore you, to punish you — to get you to stop lying,” Lewis said. They described how Jesse was known for telling classmates to “run!” which likely saved lives. My son existed,” Lewis said to Jones. “I am not deep state ... I know you know that ... And yet you’re going to leave this courthouse and say it again on your show.” Heslin and Lewis both said they fear for their lives and have been confronted by strangers at home and on the street. Heslin said his home and car have been shot at. And grateful ... that I got to say all this to you.” In a gripping exchange, Lewis spoke directly to Jones, who was sitting about 10 feet away.

Jones testifies in defamation trial after being sued by parents of victims for $150m for pushing false 'crisis actors' theory.

He is the only person testifying in defense of himself and his media company, Free Speech Systems. You are under oath.” “It was … especially since I’ve met the parents.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax.

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"12 days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone."

"You testified under oath previously that you personally searched your phone for the phrase 'Sandy Hook' and there were no messages." But in an unusual statement on Tuesday, Iranian MP Mohammad-Reza Sabbaghian Bafghi warned that Parliament could ask Khamenei to revise his fatwa if Iran's "enemies... continue their threats." - "You know what perjury is, right?"

A lawyer for two parents suing Jones said the emails showed that Infowars at one point in 2018 was making over $800,000 per day. Conspiracy theorist Alex ...

Bankston said he had let Jones’ lawyers know about the mishap 12 days ago. Infowars is a private company and is not required to disclose financial records. New texts revealed by Bankston on Wednesday appeared to show Jones signing off on more Sandy Hook conspiracy theories five years after the tragedy.

The legal team representing Infowars founder Alex Jones inadvertently sent the contents of his cellphone to a lawyer representing the parents of a child ...

The editor, Paul Watson, wrote that it “makes us look ridiculous” and added, “Sandy Hook all over again.” Jones texted back, “I get it.” Heslin and Lewis sued in 2018 over the far-right media personality’s relentless false claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “giant hoax.” Jones claimed the numbers were cherry-picked. After Jones’s years-long refusal to comply with court orders and hand over documents and evidence in lawsuits, District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County, Tex., in September found Jones responsible for all damages. But, he said, messages on Jones’s phone suggested Infowars brought in as much as $800,000 on some days. I just want to make sure you know before we go any further.”

The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone showing that he had withheld evidence in defamation lawsuits ...

Mr. Bankston, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, also revealed new evidence of Mr. Jones’s failure to produce court-ordered documents related to lies he spread about the mass shooting and its victims. In fact, his losses by default resulted from his failure to produce those materials. In another broadcast, Infowars falsely linked the judge to pedophilia; in another, Mr. Jones questioned the intelligence of the jurors in the case, implying that his political enemies had handpicked “blue-collar” people who were ill-equipped to decide what monetary damages he must pay Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin. In written questions submitted to Mr. Jones, jurors took immediate issue with that. In testimony on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, Mr. Jones continued to insist that he had complied with court orders to produce documents and testimony in the run-up to the defamation trials. Mr. Bankston also produced clips from Mr. Jones’s Infowars broadcast in which he aired a copy of a photograph of the judge in Ms. Lewis’s and Mr. Heslin’s case, Maya Guerra Gamble, engulfed in flames. The judge admonished Mr. Jones and his lawyer, F. Andino Reynal, after the Infowars fabulist lied about the matter under oath on Tuesday. The judge also chastised Mr. Jones for telling the jury that he was bankrupt when his bankruptcy filing last week had yet to be adjudicated; the families’ lawyers said it was his latest attempt to delay the upcoming damages trials. He also presented financial records that contradicted Mr. Jones’s claim that he was bankrupt and clips from his broadcasts maligning the judge and jury in the case. Mr. Jones lost those cases by default, after nearly four years of litigation in which he failed to produce documents and testimony ordered by courts in Texas and Connecticut. That set in motion three trials for damages; the one in Austin this week is the first. The text messages were significant because Mr. Jones had claimed for years that he had searched his phone for texts about the Sandy Hook cases and found none. AUSTIN, Texas — In a brutal cross-examination on Wednesday in the trial of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a lawyer for Sandy Hook parents produced text messages from Mr. Jones’s cellphone showing that he had withheld key evidence in defamation lawsuits brought by the families for lies he had spread about the 2012 school shooting. The messages, which were apparently sent in error to the families’ lawyers by Mr. Jones’s counsel, revealed that he was also warned about posting a false report about the coronavirus by a staff member calling the potential fabrication “another Sandy Hook.” The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone showing that he had withheld evidence in defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook families.

The dishonesty of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was spotlighted in a Texas court on Wednesday as a lawyer for a pair of Sandy Hook parents ...

It seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify. And Gamble on Tuesday had also admonished Jones for having violated his oath to tell the truth twice. "You are already under oath to tell the truth," Gamble said Tuesday. "You've already violated that oath twice today, in just those two examples. When reminded Jones had testified under oath that he had searched his phone during the discovery phase of the trial and could not locate messages about Sandy Hook, Jones insisted he "did not lie." In a remarkable moment, Bankston disclosed to Jones and the court that he had recently acquired evidence proving Jones had lied when he claimed during the discovery process that he had never texted about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. The cell phone records, Bankston said, showed that Jones had in fact texted about the Sandy Hook shooting.

After years of telling his followers the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged, Jones admitted on the stand that the massacre was real.

Jones said that high figure was a result of his show’s programming about the Conservative Political Action Conference. “He’s made [Heslin and Lewis] live their lives in fear, in fear of being harmed or murdered by people who believed the lies and wanted to do something about it.” Earlier in his testimony, Jones said he had personally searched for “Sandy Hook” in his text messages and had found no messages. Bankston said the contents of Jones’ phone showed that his revenue actually rose. “I personally do not get on the internet and sit there and use email,” Jones said. But Mark Bankston, an attorney for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, told Jones on Wednesday that Jones’ own attorneys recently accidentally sent them the contents of Jones’ phone from the last two years.

The past two days of the Jones trial have been wrenching and shocking. Today, the plaintiffs' lawyers revealed in dramatic fashion that Jones's lawyers ...

Jones, who relishes flashy stunts, is used to being the one who gets to make the big, gotcha reveal, but today he was on the other end, unable—under threat of contempt of court—to talk his way out of his lies. Near the end of the day, shortly after Jones contended under oath that he was bankrupt, Gamble tore into Jones for “abusing my tolerance and making asides to the jury.” Whenever Jones attempted to speak, Gamble cut him off. But Jones continued to shove his finger in his mouth in front of the judge. “I can interrupt you; you can’t interrupt me.” When Jones suggested that he and Infowars had complied with the lawsuit’s discovery requests, Gamble shut him down. Throughout the trial, Jones has been at his most exposed when the jury has left the room and he’s been forced to confront the authority of Judge Gamble. Gamble has frequently admonished Jones, the way a parent or principal might scold a misbehaving grade-schooler. Jones is used to commanding the microphone for interminable periods, and from the stand, it almost looked like he was back in his studio and about to tear into a signature four-hour broadcast rant. Opposing counsel argued this was a lie as Jones has only declared bankruptcy and not yet proved it.) At one point during a routine line of questioning, Jones told his lawyer, “You can’t be told about the matrix; you have to see it.” Jones’s attorney responded, “Let’s slow down a little bit.” At one point yesterday, Gamble interrupted Jones’s attorney to ask him to “spit his gum out.” Jones immediately stood up to tell the judge he was instead massaging the hole of a recently pulled tooth. But the witness chair is a powerful tool in exposing Jones for what he really is: a reckless individual caught in a web of his own lies. Upon realizing the gravity of the situation, Jones sat stunned and red-faced, looking on the verge of tears. What exactly might come of this discovery is unclear, but it seems likely that we will continue to learn more about the inner workings of Jones’s conspiracist media empire (one message from the trove disclosed that in 2018, Infowars was making as much as $800,000 a day from its online store). The contents of the phone could be turned over to law enforcement, where the material could be relevant in other pending investigations. The only way to shut up Alex Jones, for a moment, at least, is to place him inside a courtroom.

It's 100% real,” Jones admitted Wednesday in court, where he also learned that his lawyers accidentally passed along the contents of his phone to the ...

Which, true or not, would seem to be a fully appropriate punishment. On Tuesday, that judge, Maya Guerra Gamble, took Jones to task for lying under oath, telling him, “This is not your show.” If there’s justice in the world, Alex Jones, the infamous conspiracy theorist on trial for the unconscionable, disgusting lies he spread that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, and that the children and teachers who lost their lives that day weren’t actually killed, will have to pay the full $150 million the families suing him for defamation have asked for.

Desde sus inicios en las décadas de 1940 y 1950, el movimiento conservador moderno adoptó una mentalidad conspirativa. Desde los libros que afirmaban que el ...

El giro que le dio Cruz ayuda a explicar por qué el espacio entre Jones y el Partido Republicano se derrumbó en la década de 2010. Jones convirtió un ejercicio militar de rutina en Texas en una nueva teoría de la conspiración, diciendo a su audiencia falsamente que era un esfuerzo encubierto del gobierno para prepararse para imponer la ley marcial. El senador Ted Cruz de Texas, que se prepara para una candidatura presidencial, también legitimó la conspiración, diciendo que, aunque los militares le habían asegurado que se trataba de un ejercicio de entrenamiento rutinario, “entiendo el motivo de preocupación e incertidumbre, porque cuando el gobierno federal no ha demostrado ser digno de confianza en esta administración, la consecuencia natural es que muchos ciudadanos no confían en lo que dice”. De hecho, es posible que Alex Jones nunca hable en una convención republicana ni forme parte de la programación de Fox News en horario de máxima audiencia. Y aunque la presidencia de Trump abrió la puerta a la generalización de Jones, es importante entender que el Partido Republicano estaba listo para una transformación a la “Alex Jones”. Esto cambió en la década de 1990, cuando la política, el entretenimiento y la conspiración se mezclaron cada vez más. Pat Robertson, el televangelista que se postuló a la candidatura presidencial republicana en 1988, publicó su tratado de conspiración, “The New World Order”, en 1991. (En los años posteriores, Beck admitió que “jugó un papel, por desgracia, en ayudar a destrozar el país”). Pero ese fue el testimonio que Scarlett Lewis dio esta semana en una audiencia para determinar los daños contra Alex Jones, un teórico de la conspiración y personalidad de los medios de comunicación. (Jones fue declarado responsable de difamación en una sentencia en rebeldía a principios de este año). Durante los años de Clinton, los miembros del Congreso realizaron investigaciones sobre los helicópteros negros (un elemento básico de las conspiraciones de la década de 1990) y destacaron innumerables conspiraciones sobre Bill y Hillary Clinton. Se convirtió en un elemento básico de los discursos de Pat Buchanan en sus tres candidaturas presidenciales entre 1992 y 2000. Pero en pocos años, Jones se convertiría en parte de la estructura de poder de la derecha, desde sus entrevistas con el futuro presidente Donald Trump hasta su supuesto papel como organizador de la insurrección del 6 de enero. Después de que 20 niños y seis adultos fueran asesinados en la escuela primaria de Sandy Hook en 2012, Jones comenzó a hilar escabrosas conspiraciones según las cuales el tiroteo nunca ocurrió y las familias destrozadas eran simplemente actores.

Jones y sus viles teorías de la conspiración se han convertido en parte de la estructura de poder de la derecha en Estados Unidos, escribe Nicole Hemmer.

El giro que le dio Cruz ayuda a explicar por qué el espacio entre Jones y el Partido Republicano se derrumbó en la década de 2010. Jones convirtió un ejercicio militar de rutina en Texas en una nueva teoría de la conspiración, diciendo a su audiencia falsamente que era un esfuerzo encubierto del gobierno para prepararse para imponer la ley marcial. Esto cambió en la década de 1990, cuando la política, el entretenimiento y la conspiración se mezclaron cada vez más. Pat Robertson, el televangelista que se postuló a la candidatura presidencial republicana en 1988, publicó su tratado de conspiración, "The New World Order", en 1991. Y aunque la presidencia de Trump abrió la puerta a la generalización de Jones, es importante entender que el Partido Republicano estaba listo para una transformación a la “Alex Jones”. Pero ese fue el testimonio que Scarlett Lewis dio esta semana en una audiencia para determinar los daños contra Alex Jones, un teórico de la conspiración y personalidad de los medios de comunicación. (Jones fue declarado responsable de difamación en una sentencia en rebeldía a principios de este año). Después de que 20 niños y seis adultos fueran asesinados en la escuela primaria de Sandy Hook en 2012, Jones comenzó a hilar escabrosas conspiraciones según las cuales el tiroteo nunca ocurrió y las familias destrozadas eran simplemente actores.

Jurors have begun determining how much money Alex Jones must pay to the parents of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim, Jesse Lewis, for defamation.

Jurors also were told that Jones and his company inflicted intentional emotional distress on Heslin and Lewis by repeatedly portraying the Sandy Hook shooting as a hoax from 2012 to 2018, when they filed suit. Jurors also were asked to determine the amount of money that would fairly compensate Heslin for past and future damage to his reputation and past and future mental anguish caused by the defamatory reports. The jurors next will be asked to award punitive damages that are intended as punishment. Heslin testified that he made the statement in an NBC interview in hopes of stopping Jones' campaign and to protect the legacy of his son, who died a hero by yelling "Run!" when the gunman paused. Before hearing closing arguments Thursday, jurors were informed that Jones and Free Speech Systems defamed Heslin in two 2017 InfoWars reports that questioned Heslin's claim that he held his dead son and saw the bullet wound to his head after the shooting. Ten of the 12 jurors agreed on the verdict — the minimum number required for a decision.

Alex Jones will face three separate jury trials to determine how much money he owes Sandy Hook victims' families in damages, after the Infowars host lost a ...

Jones’s exchanges reportedly suggested that Infowars could make up to $800,000 per day, and while Jones accused Bankston of “cherry-picking” the biggest figures, he couldn’t really answer for the documents themselves. That we have to implore you — not just implore you, punish you — to get you to stop lying … It is surreal what is going on in here.” According to the Times, Jones watched Heslin’s testimony on a courtroom livestream, calling him “slow” and “manipulated by some very bad people.” According to the Times, one of the last pieces of evidence presented to the jury before it began deliberations heavily suggested Jones had lied on the stand. “And then to have someone on top of that perpetuate a lie that it was a hoax, that it didn’t happen, that it was a false flag, and that I was an actress — you think I’m an actress?” Lewis continued, according to CNN. “It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this. “And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people.” According to the Times, Jones gave a radio broadcast during Heslin’s court appearance — an absence Heslin described as “cowardly.” “I did not lie to people on purpose,” he said. On a regular basis, Jones has espoused antisemitic and Islamophobic rhetoric; he was also a key proponent of the Pizzagate conspiracy, which resulted in a gunman firing shots inside a D.C. pizzeria, and of the “Stop the Steal” movement. The Texas Tribune reports that starting on the day of the shooting, he used Infowars to advance the baseless idea that Sandy Hook was a coordinated plot — “synthetic, completely fake, with actors, in my view, manufactured,” he said during a 2015 show. I can question big PR events like Sandy Hook, where there are major anomalies,” he said, according to the Times. “They’re using Sandy Hook, and they’re using the victims and their families as a way to get rid of free speech in America. That’s the plan.” Heslin and Lewis sued Jones in 2018. “They have their own community, and they have the ear of some very powerful people.”

The Infowars host has already been found liable in lawsuits filed by the families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims. A trial this week will begin to ...

The lawyers also presented financial records that contradicted Mr. Jones’s claim that he was bankrupt. This week’s trial in Austin, Texas, is the first of three that will determine how much Mr. Jones must pay the families. The cases never made it to a jury; Mr. Jones was found liable by default in all of them because he refused to turn over documents, including financial records, ordered by the courts over four years of litigation. And if you look at the world through dirty glasses, everything you see is dirty.” The long-running legal battle has been an unusual spectacle, including the revelation on Wednesday that Mr. Jones’s lawyer accidentally sent two years’ worth of text messages to the families’ lawyers. Just a few hours after the shooting, he began calling it a “false flag,” a secretive plot planned by the government as a pretext for taking away Americans’ guns.

A Texas judge on Thursday denied Alex Jones's motion for a mistrial in a defamation case over the U.S. conspiracy theorist's false claims about the Sandy ...

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The conspiracy theorist will face multiple trials this year to decide what he owes in damages to families who sued him for defamation and won.

One, filed in Texas by Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, the parents of another child killed at the Connecticut elementary school, seeks damages from Jones for his repeated suggestions that the massacre did not happen. In his own testimony to the family in court on Tuesday, Jones admitted that he knew the Sandy Hook massacre was "100% real." After determining how much of that sum they will actually be awarded, the Texas jury will vote again to decide whether Heslin and Lewis are awarded additional punitive damages.

The Infowars host has already been found liable in lawsuits filed by the families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims. A trial this week will begin to ...

The lawyers also presented financial records that contradicted Mr. Jones’s claim that he was bankrupt. This week’s trial in Austin, Texas, is the first of three that will determine how much Mr. Jones must pay the families. The cases never made it to a jury; Mr. Jones was found liable by default in all of them because he refused to turn over documents, including financial records, ordered by the courts over four years of litigation. And if you look at the world through dirty glasses, everything you see is dirty.” The long-running legal battle has been an unusual spectacle, including the revelation on Wednesday that Mr. Jones’s lawyer accidentally sent two years’ worth of text messages to the families’ lawyers. Just a few hours after the shooting, he began calling it a “false flag,” a secretive plot planned by the government as a pretext for taking away Americans’ guns.

A Texas judge denied Alex Jones's motion for a mistrial on Thursday as jury deliberations resumed in a defamation case over the U.S. conspiracy theorist's ...

It ended when Lanza killed himself with the approaching sound of police sirens. The parents may now use the records as they wish. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com The verdict followed a two-week trial in Austin, Texas, where Jones's radio show and webcast Infowars are based. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Links to Alex Jones' cellphone texts and data were included in information inadvertently provided to lawyers for a Sandy Hook family.

"The whole thing is tainted," he said of the investigation by the U.S. House select committee. "If not, the cat's out of the bag," he said. "I am not going to seal the entire quantity of information without knowing what was in it," Guerra Gamble said. "When I told him to please disregard the link, that should've been enough." Almost two weeks ago, after Bankston informed him that links to numerous files might have been sent in error, Reynal said he quickly responded by saying, "Please disregard the link." I'm not eating the soup." — during an InfoWars broadcast that same day. Reynal never did, he said. Be there, will be wild!" "We should know by the end of the day," he said. "That is a tremendous amount of information," Reynal said, but the judge did not sympathize, noting that Jones and his frequently changing team of lawyers had failed to comply with orders to turn over relevant information to the Sandy Hook families for years. "Mr. Reynal is, right now, using a fig leaf of this motion ... to cover his own malpractice, a fig leaf to cover his own breach of duty to his client," Bankston told the judge.

An attorney representing two parents who sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre said the House committee ...

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