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Pizzagate and QAnon are conspiracy theories that originated from false claims about a child-sex ring and a deep state narrative, with QAnon replacing Pizzagate's specificity with ambiguity and adaptability.
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...
The accusation—that a pizzeria was a front for a child-trafficking ring—merged into the broader QAnon mythos and seeded a durable template for later narratives about hidden child-abuse networks . Over...
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 ...