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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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Hillary Clinton’s public statements about 2016 election “hacking” and whether the result was “stolen” evolved from specific, campaign-era claims about targeted hacks and leaks in 2016 to broader, more...
Conservative outlets and social-media aligned actors circulated a range of allegations that John Podesta used his Clinton-era access and email correspondence to exert improper influence over media, po...
Yes — multiple U.S. government investigations and independent reporting conclude that the Russian government mounted a broad, coordinated operation aimed at aiding Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Available sources here offer limited, fragmented reporting about George Webb (George Webb Sweigert) and his work; they document his crowd-sourced YouTube investigations and his use of public‑records r...