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The phrase "Pedesta plan" is not a documented policy or formal program in the sources provided; evidence shows likely conflation between John Podesta’s climate-related work and conspiracy narratives t...
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...
George Webb (full name George Webb Sweigert in public records) is a self-styled, independent investigator and online journalist who has used crowd-sourcing and public-records requests to pursue storie...
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...
There is no authoritative, sourced document called the “Podesta Plan” in the reporting supplied; the phrase appears to be a political label rather than the title of a public policy authored by a named...
Pizzagate originated during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign as a social-media-driven conspiracy that misinterpreted leaked Democratic emails and coded language to allege a child-sex ring operating...
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...
Roger Stone was convicted in federal court on seven felony counts arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false s...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as chair of the Democratic National Committee in late July 2016 after a public controversy triggered by a large leak of internal DNC emails that suggested during the ...
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...
Roger Stone was convicted in November 2019 on seven federal counts — five counts of making false statements to Congress, one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of an official pro...
The answer depends on definitions: criminal "collusion" or "conspiracy" was not proven by the special counsel, but multiple official investigations concluded Russia interfered to help Trump and docume...
We can be certain humans landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972: multiple lines of independent, international evidence — photographic observations by later lunar probes, radar and radio tracking by ...
Hillary Clinton’s email controversy centered on her use of a private email server and account for official State Department business from 2009–2013, which the State Department inspector general and th...
George Webb (listed on MuckRock as George Webb Sweigert) presents himself as an “accidental journalist” who has run crowd‑sourced, long‑running online investigations; MuckRock records show he filed 18...
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...
Hillary Clinton used a private email server at her home for official State Department business from 2009–2013; the FBI concluded she and her aides were “extremely careless” with classified information...
published by WikiLeaks were a large trove—over 20,000 pages released in serialized batches—that exposed internal communications from and illuminated , fundraising and speech excerpts, and political ma...