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American political consultant (born 1949)
The term “Podesta plan” has been used in competing ways: mainstream reporting and academic projects tied to John Podesta involve transition planning and climate/energy policy work (see John Podesta’s ...
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...
The term "Podesta Plan" circulates in online conspiracy communities as a supposed multi-stage Democratic strategy to delegitimize or remove Donald Trump; most of the items returned by the supplied sea...
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...
John Podesta is chiefly discussed in the provided sources for his climate policy work — advocating ambitious emissions targets, a net‑zero by 2050 trajectory and a 100% clean power sector by 2035, and...
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...
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...
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...
John Podesta is not verified to be “Skippy”; the provided sources do not substantiate that claim and instead either do not mention the nickname or discuss unrelated topics such as his art interests an...
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...
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...
The Mueller Report concluded that the Russian government “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion,” using two principal operations: a social‑media campaign run ...