A survivor of the Parkland school shooting in February has been mocked up to look like Adolf Hitler in a series of videos released by far right US media sites.
David Hogg, 17, spoke at the 'March For Our Lives' rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday but the footage of his speech - at the end of which he raised his right fist in the air - has been doctored to also feature crowds of Nazi party supporters in the 1930s as well as Hitler's voice dubbed over Hogg's.
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The videos were released on YouTube but have since also been played by right wing media outlets InfoWars and Breitbart.
The original video was posted by the YouTube user MAGA3D and was flagged by the video streaming site for potentially containing 'inappropriate of offensive' material.
It was titled: "Hogg Hitler! The little dictator in the making."
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Since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day this year, Hogg and several of the other survivors formed the group 'Never Again MSD' to campaign for more stringent laws on gun control to prevent further gun violence in the USA.
At the school in Florida, Nikolai Cruz is alleged to have shot and killed 17 students and members of staff at the school.
Their campaign has come in for a lot of criticism, particularly from pro-gun politicians and citizens.
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The Minnesota Republican Representative Mary Franson appeared to compare the group to the Hitler Youth - the youth organisation of the Nazis - in a series of posts that she then deleted. She denies the comparison.
In another incident the aide of New York State Senator Martin Golden lost his job after comparing the high-school student protesters to Nazis.
A statement from Golden's office said: "Anthony Testaverde is no longer employed by my office. While freedom of speech is a right, that all citizens enjoy, what occurred in this instance was wrong and cannot be tolerated".
The far-right conspiracist Alex Jones also gave his opinion on the video. He introduced the video as containing "truly frightening historically iconography - you cannot deny these parallels of this youth march."
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He continued: "Authoritarianism is always about youth marches."
He later said that he doesn't think that Hogg is a Nazi, but that the protests were similar to the ideology of Nazism.
Jones earlier called the protests a 'Hitler Youth invasion' and said that Hogg was the "chief propagandist in the left wing fascist Hitler Youth army."
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