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Did a Second Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Die After 'Exposing' the Parkland Shooting?

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David Mikkelson
Apr 30, 2018 Several conspiracy sites attempted to link the deaths of two Broward County sheriff's deputies, ...
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Did a Florida Sheriff's Deputy Die 'Suspiciously' After Criticizing David Hogg?

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Arturo Garcia
Apr 18, 2018 Several dubious web sites complained about a "media blackout" surrounding Jason Fitzsimons' deat ...
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'Natural News' Creator's Newest Site Focuses Entirely on Teenaged Mass Shooting Survivor

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Alex Kasprak
Apr 16, 2018 Mike "Health Ranger" Adams is behind a web site dedicated to attacking David Hogg, who survived ...
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Did a GOP Lawmaker Report a High School Student for Cursing Over Gun Safety?

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Arturo Garcia
Mar 25, 2018 Rep. Mark Amodei did not notify Noah Christiansen's school, but he defended the staff member who ...
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Was Emma González Wearing a Cuban Flag Patch During Her 'March for Our Lives' Speech?

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Arturo Garcia
Mar 25, 2018 An image of the Parkland school shooting attack survivor attempts to cast her as a "communist" f ...
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Was Emma González Filmed Ripping Up the U.S. Constitution?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Mar 25, 2018 The outspoken survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting has been campai ...
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Did a GOP Candidate Insult a Parkland Shooting Survivor on Twitter?

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Kim LaCapria
Mar 14, 2018 Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate Maine's House of Representatives, called Parkland school s ...
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Does President Donald Trump Plan to End School Shootings — By Banning Schools?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Mar 3, 2018 An article appearing to report that the president has an unorthodox idea for ending mass shootin ...
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Did a First Responder Say He Was Told to 'Stand Down' in Parkland?

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Bethania Palma
Mar 3, 2018 A headline on the conspiracy blog Infowars.com mischaracterizes a tweet by a legitimate news rep ...
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Did a Parkland Survivor Tweet a Homophobic Slur?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Mar 2, 2018 A fake tweet was spread in an attempt to smear the reputation of David Hogg, who survived a mass ...
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Are Parkland School Shooting Survivors Receiving Death Threats from NRA Members?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Feb 27, 2018 Although we don't know if people using social media to harass massacre survivors are all NRA mem ...
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Is a School Walkout Planned in Response to the Parkland Mass Shooting?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Feb 22, 2018 School walkouts and a protest in Washington, D.C. are being planned in response to a deadly Febr ...
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Did People 'Attack' the Father of a School Shooting Victim for Wearing a Donald Trump T-Shirt?

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Dan MacGuill
Feb 21, 2018 A very small minority of Twitter users expressed a critical view of Andrew Pollack, but none app ...
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Is the Florida Mass Shooter a Member of a White Supremacist Group?

Written by:
David Emery
Feb 20, 2018 There is no evidence to date that the confessed school shooter belongs to any organized hate gro ...
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Far Right Blogs, Conspiracy Theorists Attack Parkland Mass Shooting Survivor

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Feb 20, 2018 Disreputable web sites called it a "red flag" that the father of high school student David Hogg ...
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Eyewitness Testimony Confirms a Second Parkland Shooter?

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Alex Kasprak
Feb 19, 2018 Dubious web sites have used students' purportedly conflicting accounts of a Florida mass shootin ...
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Are Third-Graders Raffling Off an AR-15 After the Parkland Shooting?

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Arturo Garcia
Feb 19, 2018 A youth baseball coach in Missouri said he wanted to make the giveaway "a positive thing."
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Was Parkland Student Chris Williams Shot While Saving Classmates?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Feb 19, 2018 A student did get shot while locking a door during a school shooting -- but his name is not Chri ...
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No School Shootings in the United Kingdom Since Handguns Were Banned?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Feb 16, 2018 After a massacre at Dunblane Primary School in 1996, there have been no school shootings in the UK.
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Parkland High School Shooting Rumors, Hoaxes, and Conspiracy Theories

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Feb 15, 2018 A number of unverified claims about the Parkland school shooting spread on social media in its i ...
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