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David Miles Hogg (born April 12, 2000) is an American gun control activist. He rose to prominence during the 2018 United States gun violence protests as a student survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting , helping lead several high-profile protests, marches, and boycotts, including the boycott of The Ingraham Angle .
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg initiated this boycott after the show's host, Laura Ingraham, ridiculed him amidst possible conspiracy theories related to the shooting at his school in 2018, in which seventeen students died and where Hogg was a witness and survivor. [1]
David Hogg (far left) and X González (second to right) at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 17, 2018. The group was co-formed by Cameron Kasky and his friends at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the first four days after the shooting, [12] which was committed by the alleged gunman, Nikolas Cruz, who was a 19-year-old former student of the school and armed with an AR ...
At just 18 years, Hogg’s life completely changed after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which took the lives of 17 people.
Lauren Elizabeth Hogg (born June 10, 2003) is an American author and activist against gun violence. She survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 and after became a co-founder of March for Our Lives and advocates against gun violence.
In response, Hogg called for a renewal of the previous boycott via Twitter the following day. [55] Ingraham's comments followed an MSNBC report by Jacob Soboroff which was broadcast on June 14, 2018. The report described a Texas detainment facility setup to be like a "dormitory structure" with a cafeteria and rooms that contained four beds in each.
As a student attending the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jaclyn Corin was the junior class president at the time of the deadly shooting in 2018. [4] Her close friends Joaquin Oliver [4] and Jaime Guttenberg were killed in the shooting; she had once tutored the 19-year-old alleged gunman and former student of the school, Nikolas Cruz. [3]
Twitter became a key part of politics and international relations but was also banned or blocked in some countries. Twitter went public in 2013 and continued to expand. The COVID-19 pandemic challenged Twitter's handling of misinformation on the platform. Elon Musk took Twitter private in 2022 and later changed the name of the service to X.