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Laura Ingraham

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Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham laughs after telling a joke about herpes during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to address CPAC, the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the nation.

David Hogg, a student who survived the shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday called for a boycott of companies that advertise on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show in response to a tweet that mocked Hogg by saying he "whines" about college rejections.

He later tweeted a list of companies he said were advertisers on Ingraham's show and urged his followers to contact them.

On Thursday morning, the pet-food company Nutrish confirmed on Twitter that it would pull ads from the show. TripAdvisor, Wayfair, and Nestlé later followed suit; the latter said it had "no plans to buy ads" on the show in the future.

Ingraham apologized to Hogg on Twitter on Thursday. But other companies, which were not included in Hogg's initial boycott list but advertise on the show, have also pulled ads.

To read more about how the companies have responded so far, click here.

In other news:

A cynic's guide to Facebook's decision to dump third party data for advertising. Facebook may have been planning this move to protect itself against GDPR or to even strengthen its own data advantage.

One of the data companies that Facebook just kicked off its platform is livid: 'We are getting thrown under the bus.' Acxiom CEO Scott Howe told Business Insider that Facebook is deliberately cutting off third-party data vendors to distract from its botched handling of the Cambridge Analytica mess.

Mark Zuckerberg says a Facebook exec's memo justifying deaths in order to grow the network was a 'provocative' thing he disagrees with strongly. Andrew "Boz" Bosworth wrote a memo in 2016 saying that it is Facebook may kill people because the platform connects people.

'It's destroying jobs': Ex-Walmart CEO joins Trump in attacking 'predatory' Amazon. "It's anti-competitive, it's predatory, and it's not right," said Walmart's former CEO Bill Simon.

Under Armour is urging 150 million customers to take action after its wildly popular fitness app was hacked. MyFitnessPal has been hit by a data breach where an "unauthorized party" gained information like usernames and email addresses, but not payment details.

Staffers at satire site The Onion have announced plans to unionize, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move comes at a time when controlling shareholder Univision Communications Inc. is exploring extensive cost cuts at its digital properties.

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