Website focuses on attacking Parkland survivor
An internet conspiracy theorist tied to Alex Jones has launched a new website dedicated to attacking gun control advocate David Hogg, and claims it’s protected by free speech.
The content on features content exclusively related to the 18-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, who survived the February shooting that killed 17 people.
Many of the articles are written by Mike Adams, the founder of Natural News — a bombastic website seeking to debunk widely accepted scientific theories.
But which began publishing stories after the Feb. 14 massacre, pushes conspiracy theories that Hogg is a paid actor who wants to shift American ideology.
“It’s all THEATER: Florida high school shooting survivor caught on video rehearsing scripted lines, coached by camera man,” reads one headline on the website dated Feb. 19.
The website often refers to him as some variation of a “gun control fascist youth front man,” and disclaims that it’s protected by free speech.
“In some ways this is the definition of free speech in the modern era,” said Roy Gutterman, director of Syracuse University’s Tully Center for Free Speech.
“This is going to sound awful, but this is fair game for a certain segment of the population,” he told the New York Daily News. “Not everyone is going to agree with David Hogg’s politics or agenda, and likewise a lot of people aren’t going to agree with this website that’s trying to take him down.”
Hogg and classmate Emma Gonzalez have clashed with conservative pundits and celebrities over their calls for stricter gun laws in wake of the massacre.
Several advertisers pulled out of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show after she mocked Hogg for not getting into UCLA and other universities.
Many posts on are penned by writer JD Heyes, including one from last week with the headline “Marxist Democrats are exploiting young people like David Hogg to push ‘revolution’ in America.”
Hogg’s budding prominence in the political landscape — speaking at rallies and regularly appearing on TV — could hinder any sort of legal challenge he may want to bring for the weighted charges.