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Pizzeria in Washington, DC
researchers pointed repeatedly to a small subset of — notably messages that mention “pizza,” references to food items (cheese, walnut sauce), social invitations, and a handful that mention children or...
The single most-cited email that ignited the frenzy was a mundane note about a forgotten handkerchief described as having “a map that seems pizza-related,” which investigators on forums read as a code...
Pizzagate is a widely debunked conspiracy theory from 2016 that falsely alleged a Washington, D.C. pizzeria — Comet Ping Pong — was the hub of a Democratic Party–run child sex-trafficking and pornogra...
Pizzagate began in late 2016 after hackers released John Podesta’s emails and online users on anonymous forums and Reddit misinterpreted mentions of food as coded language; a Reddit “evidence” documen...
sprang from the of hacked campaign emails in 2016, when internet investigators claimed benign phrases and social posts in those emails were “coded” references to child sex trafficking centered on pizz...
The Frazzledrip narrative did not spring from a single verified source but first surfaced publicly in April 2018 on Facebook and conspiracy forums as a set of lurid allegations and images described as...
-wikileaks-email-breach">Pizzagate began as a false interpretation of hacked emails and went viral across fringe forums and mainstream platforms, later becoming a core myth in the broader movement . P...
Comet Ping Pong was falsely identified by online users as the center of the “Pizzagate” child‑sex trafficking conspiracy after hacked John Podesta emails and forum sleuthing tied vague phrases and soc...
proponents pointed to a small subset of the thousands of emails published by —chiefly messages mentioning “pizza,” references to (owner of ), a handkerchief anecdote, and a handful of social exchanges...
Pizzagate began as a 2016 viral allegation that leaked emails implied a Democratic pedophile ring centered on a Washington pizzeria, and researchers and reporting identify it as a direct predecessor a...
Yes. A widely circulated conspiracy about elite-organized child sex trafficking is commonly known as QAnon and traces back to the 2016–2017 "Pizzagate" and later Q drops; its core claim — a global cab...
Pizzagate was a debunked conspiracy alleging a Washington, D.C., pizzeria—Comet Ping Pong—was the center of a child-sex trafficking ring tied to Democratic officials; the claim began with misreadings ...
Pizzagate supplied QAnon a ready-made mythology—an online story that high-status elites ran a secret child-sex trafficking cabal—which QAnon amplified, generalized beyond Democratic targets, and retoo...
Donald Trump’s campaign and close allies did not uniformly embrace or officially promote the Pizzagate conspiracy, but multiple Trump-aligned figures—most prominently Michael Flynn and other fringe su...
Anonymous users on 4chan’s /pol/ began combing the release of John Podesta’s emails and proposed food-related “codes,” seeding interpretations that were amplified, migrated and annotated across and ot...
’s fresh produce and other perishables are stored offsite or in shared equipment with its sister restaurant Buck’s Fishing & Camping rather than in an enigmatic in-house basement: reporting says the r...
’s false narrative moved rapidly from message boards to the street, producing an armed attack on , sustained threats and harassment against named people and businesses, and broader cultural and instit...
No contemporaneous, attributable press release or quote from an official Trump campaign spokesperson explicitly endorsing the Pizzagate conspiracy appears in the provided reporting; instead, the recor...
WikiLeaks’ publication of John Podesta’s hacked emails created a searchable trove of candid, out-of-context messages that conspiracists weaponized as “evidence,” and those arcane interpretations of mu...
Fact-checkers and law enforcement rejected the core Pizzagate claims by showing there was no evidence of a child-trafficking ring tied to Comet Ping Pong, that the leaked Podesta emails contain no dis...