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Pizzeria in Washington, DC
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
George Webb is a prolific independent investigator and online commentator who has been associated with—but not uniformly a core promoter of—the Pizzagate movement; some community posts credit him with...
The Pizzagate episode and the QAnon movement produced a pattern of documented real-world harms: individual acts of violence and threats, reputational and economic damage to private people and business...
Pizzagate coalesced in early November 2016 after WikiLeaks published John Podesta’s hacked emails; anonymous users on 4chan’s /pol/ began parsing mundane references (like “pizza”) as coded language, a...
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...
Frazzledrip is repeatedly treated in reporting and online commentary as a related offshoot of Pizzagate: multiple sources say Frazzledrip emerged after Pizzagate and has been linked to it and to QAnon...
The Pizzagate conspiracy began as a fringe rumor in late 2016 and was propelled into wider public view by a mix of coordinated online communities, , and social platforms that amplified and monetized s...
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...
Pizzagate began as a false, tightly focused theory spun from the 2016 Podesta email leaks alleging a Democratic-run child-trafficking ring centered on a Washington pizzeria . QAnon emerged in October ...
Pizzagate began as a 2016–2017 cluster of false claims about a child-sex ring centered on Comet Ping Pong and spread through forums and right-leaning blogs, which then fed into and was absorbed by QAn...
Since 2017, reporting and compiled databases tie QAnon adherents to a range of high‑profile crimes including at least one fatal shooting, multiple murders and attempted murders, armed standoffs, a ter...