Survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting were the subject of lies that became Politifact 's 2018 Lie of the Year . Students including Emma González and David Hogg , who became prominent gun control activists in the wake of the shooting and helped organize the March for our Lives , were the subjects of conspiracy theories that they were " crisis actors " . The lies were spread on blogs and social media by sources including InfoWars . PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for " its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims , separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters "
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
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