The Gateway Pundit’s White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich circulated a hoax falsely claiming Buzzfeed wrote an article on “why we need to take away white people’s guns.”

In the wake of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, where at least 17 people were killed Wintrich posted a screenshot of a fake Buzzfeed article titled “Why We Need To Take Away White People’s Guns Now More Than Ever.”

Gateway Pundit circulating a hoax screenshot of BuzzFeed News reporting in aftermath of FL school shooting. Let me be clear, this is fake. pic.twitter.com/VNJuYPec0a

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 15, 2018

The tweet has since been deleted. The claim was also posted on 4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board.

Wintrich issued a statement to The Hill’s Will Sommer about spreading the hoax:

Gateway Pundit WH correspondent Lucian Wintrich has a remarkably bad explanation for why he promoted a hoax BuzzFeed article after the Florida shooting pic.twitter.com/iNBGBAVJhk

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 15, 2018

Wintrich and the Gateway Pundit routinely promote conspiracy theories and hoaxes which can often catch fire in the right-wing internet world and with President Donald Trump. Gateway Pundit also shared a 4chan hoax following the Las Vegas shooting in October. After being widely criticized, Wintrich defended sharing that story as well.