publication date: Monday, March 5, 2018 (part of Spring 2018)

category: Activism

clue: Depending on who you ask, this porcine teenager is either an activist determined to stop more school shootings like the one he survived, or an actor being paid to participate in conspiracies to undermine gun rights.

explanation: Hogg survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida in February 2018 and joined the #NeverAgain movement, but was called a crisis actor by conspiracy theorists. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, and Erik Bates


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