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The Pizzagate myth was amplified by anonymous message boards, partisan sites, and some mainstream amplification, producing real-world harm.
formed in the final days of the when hacked emails published by were mined on anonymous forums and ordinary references to food were recast as coded signals for a child‑sex ring centered on pizza in . ...
began as a set of speculative readings of hacked emails in late October–early November 2016 and coalesced into a viral hashtag and narrative claiming a child-trafficking ring operated from , a Washing...
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...
The email leaks contained mundane, sometimes oddly worded references to food and social arrangements; those fragments were read as “coded” language by online communities who threaded them into a large...