In March 2018, a RedState contributor posted a story questioning whether David Hogg, a 17-year-old survivor in the Parkland school shooting, was actually in the school during the time of the shooting. RedState backtracked later and the writer of the story apologized. RedState added an "update" to the story, but did not provide a "correction". RedState's update also blamed the story on confusing reports by other news organizations. The false RedState story was shared widely by prominent conservatives, including Erick Erickson.