The reason it mattered was that he didn't just say it was a hoax and didn't happen
but specifically said that the bereaved families were 'crisis actors' - people paid by Them to pretend to be mourning the tragic loss of their children in order to make the hoax believable. This led to the families receiving massive amounts of online (and IRL) harassment for years, taunting them about the 'supposed' murder of their children etc.
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