"The Gateway Pundit" promoted conspiracy theories about Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. In February 2018, "The Gateway Pundit" published an article erroneously stating that school shooter Nikolas Cruz was a registered Democrat, citing a registered Broward County voter with a similar name. The website later corrected its mistake. Later that month, "The" "Gateway Pundit" was one of a number of far-right websites that pushed the claim that at least one of the teenage survivors of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was a deep state pawn, alleging that David Hogg's gun control activism was being coached by his retired FBI agent father.