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The 2016 WikiLeaks release of John Podesta's hacked emails, attributed to Russian intelligence, fueled criticism of Podesta's credibility.
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...
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...
-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...
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...
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...
A discrete set of items in the “” collection has been repeatedly cited by online researchers as containing the words "pool" or "pizza"; primary candidate email identifiers called out across the report...
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...
A close reading of the Podesta email archive released by shows no documented phrase or item labeled an “immortal chamber”; what did circulate in 2016 were odd, ambiguous phrases — including an email w...
refers to thousands of emails taken from , ’s 2016 campaign chairman, that published in batches in October–November 2016, revealing internal campaign discussions and other communications and becoming ...
Official probes and mainstream reporting concluded that the claims tying ’s hacked emails to a child-sex-trafficking ring known as “-wikileaks-email-breach">Pizzagate” are unfounded: the story grew fr...
Newly released documents and media reporting show ’s name appears only peripherally in the latest batch of files and there is no verified evidence in those documents that he is connected to any “tortu...
The claim that is the man heard torturing a child on a notorious leaked audio/video has never been substantiated by credible, verifiable evidence; the allegation circulates mainly on fringe websites a...
There is no credible, verifiable evidence in the reporting provided that is the person torturing a child in any circulated video; the allegation traces to -era conspiracy posts, partisan blogs and fri...
A series of viral videos and images purporting to show in criminal or scandalous acts — from festál parties to secret trials at — have been repeatedly investigated and found to be false or misleading...
began as a false interpretation of hacked emails in 2016 and was thoroughly debunked after it led to threats and a gun incident at . The of millions of pages from the files has reignited online chatte...
A targeted review of the provided reporting finds no explicitly referencing the or fundraisers tied to that program; the nearest documented items are emails and public reporting about Podesta-hosted f...
The Podesta email corpus released by includes a small number of messages that mention , primarily in the context of fundraisers and social contacts; the published threads, as available in the WikiLeak...
The “Podesta Plan” — shorthand critics used for John Podesta’s Center for American Progress roadmap urging the executive branch to advance progressive change — prompted sharply divided reactions: cons...