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<div role="note" class="hatnote">Not to be confused with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Buffet#.22Pizzagate.22" class="extiw" title="wp:Battle of the Buffet" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Battle_of_the_Buffet#">Battle of the Buffet</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> in British football.</div>
<p><b>Pizzagate</b> is the (<a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Poe's law">admittedly rather silly and unoriginal</a>) name of an actual <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> claiming that <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> is secretly involved in a <a href="/wiki/Pedophile" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedophile">pedophile</a> ring centered around a pizza restaurant in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> This outlandish theory was spawned from <a href="/wiki/John_Hogue" title="John Hogue">a highly peculiar pattern-analytical reading</a> of the hacked emails leaked by <a href="/wiki/Wikileaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikileaks">Wikileaks</a> belonging to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podesta" class="extiw" title="wp:John Podesta" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: John Podesta">John Podesta</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> then-manager of <a href="/wiki/2016_U.S._presidential_election" title="2016 U.S. presidential election">Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign</a>, as the highly suspect code phrase "<a href="/wiki/Cheese" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheese">cheese</a> pizza" figured among said correspondence.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> The fact that the mention of cheese pizza was much more interesting to <a href="/wiki/Crank" title="Crank">some people</a> than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails" class="extiw" title="wp:Podesta emails" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Podesta_emails">actual emails of any possible importance whatsoever</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> says <i>something</i> about the <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy</a> crowd.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[note 1]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Pizzagate theory was initially promoted and popularized on the notorious <a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Poe's law">Poe-nest</a> <a href="/wiki/4chan" title="4chan">4chan</a> and on <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a>. It spread quickly over various <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a> websites, as well as <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media">social media</a> platforms such as <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, and culminated in an <a href="/wiki/Gun_nut" title="Gun nut">armed man</a>, arguably acting on the suggestion of one <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-JONES2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JONES2-5">[4]</a></sup> entering the <s>lion's den</s> pizza parlor in question, rifle in hand, to "self-investigate"<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[note 2]</a></sup> the claims in December 2016. Luckily, no one was injured. 
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Origin_and_spread"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Origin and spread</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Meanwhile_in_Turkey..."><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Meanwhile in Turkey...</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#A_gunman"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">A gunman</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Team_Trump_responds"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Team Trump responds</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#.22Reputable.22_sources"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">"Reputable" sources</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#.28Mis.29infographics"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">(Mis)infographics</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Infographic_.231"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Infographic #1</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Infographic_.232"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Infographic #2</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Infographic_.233"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Infographic #3</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Infographic_.234"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Infographic #4</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Infographic_.235"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Infographic #5</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Podesta_email_.22code_words.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Podesta email "code words"</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#.22Pizzagate:_Just_The_Facts.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.7</span> <span class="toctext">"Pizzagate: Just The Facts"</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Pizza.jpg"><span class="tocnumber">2.8</span> <span class="toctext">Pizza.jpg</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Lessons_and_conclusions"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Lessons and conclusions</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Cr.C3.A8me_de_la_Kremlin"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Crème de la Kremlin</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#This_is_why_we_can.27t_have_nice_things"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">This is why we can't have nice things</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#The_aftermath"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">The aftermath</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Donutgate"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Donutgate</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Pizzagate_2:_Electric_Boogaloo"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Pizzagate 2: Electric Boogaloo</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Origin_and_spread">Origin and spread</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Origin and spread">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Conspiracy_theorist_(48555437426).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Conspiracy_theorist_%2848555437426%29.jpg/300px-Conspiracy_theorist_%2848555437426%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="286" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Conspiracy_theorist_%2848555437426%29.jpg/450px-Conspiracy_theorist_%2848555437426%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Conspiracy_theorist_%2848555437426%29.jpg/600px-Conspiracy_theorist_%2848555437426%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3198" data-file-height="3050"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Conspiracy_theorist_(48555437426).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><s>Dumbshit</s> Trump supporter holding a Pizzagate sign with <a href="/wiki/Triple_parentheses" title="Triple parentheses">triple parentheses</a> around <a href="/wiki/Epstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Epstein">Epstein</a>, an antisemitic <a href="/wiki/Dogwhistle" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogwhistle">dogwhistle</a>.</div></div></div>
<p>The foundations of Pizzagate were laid by 4chan <a href="/wiki/Troll" class="mw-redirect" title="Troll">trolls</a> scouring Clinton-related emails released by <a href="/wiki/Wikileaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikileaks">Wikileaks</a>, looking for dirt.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[note 3]</a></sup> They found a series of emails which mentioned the pizza parlor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ping_Pong" class="extiw" title="wp:Comet Ping Pong" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Comet Ping Pong">Comet Ping Pong</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> in Washington, D.C.,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[note 4]</a></sup> having seen occasional use as a venue for <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party">DNC</a> fundraising events.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[5]</a></sup> Because <a href="/wiki/Improbable_things_happen" title="Improbable things happen">life is random</a>, the phrase "cheese pizza" happened to be an inside joke referring to child pornography on 4chan.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[note 5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[7]</a></sup> Thus, users started to fabricate a conspiracy theory around the mention of this generic food item in the Podesta emails, soon speculating up a storm. Based on this diligent research, they quickly concluded that Podesta, Clinton <a href="/wiki/Vague" class="mw-redirect" title="Vague">and others</a> were all part of a clandestine pedophile ring operating out of the innocent-looking pizza parlor.<sup id="cite_ref-vox_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vox-13">[8]</a></sup> The conspira-trollery eventually flooded <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a>, where, on /r/The_Donald/, redditor "DumbScribblyUnctious" collected all the dubious conspiracy theories into <a href="/wiki/Gish_Gallop" title="Gish Gallop">one giant screed</a> titled "Comet Ping Pong — Pizzagate Summary".<sup id="cite_ref-comet_ping_pong_pizzagate_summary_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comet_ping_pong_pizzagate_summary-14">[9]</a></sup>
</p><p>For the simple reason that this <a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Poe's law">inherently borders on actual absurdist comedy</a>, the popularity of the Pizzagate <a href="/wiki/Manufactroversy" title="Manufactroversy">manufactroversy</a> grew quickly, with theories about the supposed conspiracy quickly <a href="/wiki/Adding_epicycles" title="Adding epicycles">growing ridiculously complex and lengthy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vox_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vox-13">[8]</a></sup> Professional insanity dispenser <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a> fanned the flames by adding his own conspiratorial twist, posting an <a href="/wiki/InfoWars" class="mw-redirect" title="InfoWars">InfoWars</a> bulletin titled <i><a href="/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance" title="Argument from ignorance">Pizzagate Is Real: Something Is Going On, But What?</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-JONES_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JONES-15">[10]</a></sup> where he told viewers that "<a href="/wiki/Do_your_own_research" title="Do your own research">you have to go investigate it for yourself</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-JONES2_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JONES2-5">[4]</a></sup> neglecting to factor in that <a href="/wiki/Crank" title="Crank">his viewers</a> might actually be impressionable enough to <a href="#A_gunman">take his suggestions to heart</a>.
</p><p>As Pizzagate blew up on the internet, the hashtag #pizzagate began trending on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[11]</a></sup> Comet Ping Pong suddenly gained a massive amount of followers on Instagram, along with numerous death threats.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[note 6]</a></sup> The conspiracy theory was actively spread on Twitter by a number of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a> supporters, a mob apparently still consumed by Trump's (<a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">later completely abandoned</a>) "crooked Hillary" narrative, desperate for any scraps of manufactroversy that could realize their wet dream — to "<a href="/wiki/Scapegoat" title="Scapegoat">lock her up</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-vox_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vox-13">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[note 7]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Meanwhile_in_Turkey...">Meanwhile in Turkey...</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Meanwhile in Turkey...">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p><a href="/wiki/Turkish" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkish">Turkish</a> media outlets loyal to <s>sultan</s> president <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</a> responsibly decided to publish articles promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[12]</a></sup> Aside from the goal of generally stirring anti-American sentiment in Turkey, the stories were likely meant to deflect from a sexual abuse scandal implicating a <a href="/wiki/Charity" title="Charity">charitable</a> foundation with ties to Erdoğan's ruling party, and to distract from crackdowns on dissent after the <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan#Taking_over_Turkey" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">attempted coup of July 2016</a>.
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<td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/Fun:Star_Wars" title="Fun:Star Wars"><s>Princess Leia</s></a> <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a>, making a wish to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackassGenie">Jackass Genie</a></cite>
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<p>As Pizzagate propagated across social media through various fake news outlets, with <a href="/wiki/Infowars" class="mw-redirect" title="Infowars">strategic command in charge of Hillary-bashing operations</a> taking the hysteria to a new level, many people, lacking the apparent ability to tell fact from fiction, took the whole production for a <i>real</i> news story. One such misguided individual — 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch from Salisbury, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> — decided to respond to Alex Jones' impassioned pleas for <s>General Kenobi</s> <i>someone</i> to take matters into their own hands and "<a href="/wiki/Mass_shooting" title="Mass shooting">personally investigate</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-JONES2_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JONES2-5">[4]</a></sup>
</p><p>Like a modern-day fake news-fueled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Bickle" class="extiw" title="wp:Travis Bickle" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Travis Bickle">Travis Bickle</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> Welch ominously stepped inside Comet Ping Pong on December 4, 2016 at around 3 p.m., when the parlor was packed with customers.<sup id="cite_ref-Heavy_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heavy-20">[13]</a></sup> And Welch hadn't come alone, either (making his entrance brandishing a loaded rifle), supposedly on a mission to "self-investigate" the Pizzagate conspiracy.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[note 8]</a></sup> Understandably, employees and diners alike made like a tree and left the scene. In a sense, Welch had successfully managed to drain <i>that</i> particular <a href="/wiki/NWO" class="mw-redirect" title="NWO">NWO</a> swamp. According to his own post-arrest words, Welch "fired off some rounds". Thankfully (though oddly, perhaps battling some kind of <a href="/wiki/Poltergeist" title="Poltergeist">Pizzergeist</a>?), he only fired his gun once he was alone in the parlor.<sup id="cite_ref-Heavy_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heavy-20">[13]</a></sup> Soon after, he was promptly arrested after surrendering to police.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[17]</a></sup> Welch later stated that:<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-26">[18]</a></sup>
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<p>While Welch first <i>heard</i> of the Pizzagate conspiracy through word of mouth, he confirmed it was the barrage of nonsense on the internet that led him to believe his actions were warranted.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-26">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[note 9]</a></sup>
</p><p>After the shooting, Alex Jones later apologized:<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[20]</a></sup>
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<p>I want our viewers and listeners to know that we regret any negative impact our commentaries may have had on Mr. Alefantis, Comet Ping Pong, or its employees. We apologize to the extent our commentaries could be construed as negative statements about Mr. Alefantis or Comet Ping Pong, and we hope that anyone else involved in commenting on Pizzagate will do the same thing.
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<p>At some point, the InfoWars apology was deleted from the web site.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[note 10]</a></sup> Taking and bearing responsibility is too much effort.
</p><p>Some Pizzagate believers condemned Welch on Facebook, accusing him of being a <a href="/wiki/Crisis_actor" title="Crisis actor">crisis actor</a> involved in a <a href="/wiki/False_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="False flag">false flag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[21]</a></sup> However, if one starts from the premise that Pizzagate is true, one could conclude that Welch acted rationally;<sup id="cite_ref-stanley_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stanley-32">[22]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:61</sup> this is basically what Welch had confessed.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-26">[18]</a></sup> The conclusion from this is that Pizzagate, like many conspiracy theories, is not meant to be believed but to function as a <a href="/wiki/Smear_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Smear campaign">smear campaign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-stanley_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stanley-32">[22]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:61</sup>
</p><p>In May 2019, an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> memo from the Phoenix Field Office designated several political conspiracy theories (<a href="/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon">QAnon</a>, Pizzagate, <a href="/wiki/HAARP" title="HAARP">HAARP</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_World_Order" title="New World Order">New World Order</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Hook_massacre" title="Sandy Hook massacre">Sandy Hook massacre</a>) as domestic threats with the potential to incite violence.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fbi_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fbi-34">[24]</a></sup> As evidence, the FBI cited arrests for criminal activities associated with the theories.<sup id="cite_ref-fbi_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fbi-34">[24]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Team_Trump_responds">Team Trump responds</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Team Trump responds">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>As it happens, even Michael G. Flynn, son of Trump confidante and retired lieutenant general Michael T. Flynn, promoted the conspiracy theory, tweeting on December 6:<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[25]</a></sup>
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<p>His comments attracted national attention and even resulted in him <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">being fired from Trump's transition team</a>. Even after his sacking, Flynn shared several tweets by <a href="/wiki/Gamergater" class="mw-redirect" title="Gamergater">Gamergater</a> and lawyer <a href="/wiki/Mike_Cernovich" title="Mike Cernovich">Mike Cernovich</a>, showing continued support for the conspiracy theory and tacitly implying that he believed the gunman incident might have been a <a href="/wiki/False_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="False flag">false flag</a> operation.
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<h3><span id="&quot;Reputable&quot;_sources"></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Reputable.22_sources">"Reputable" sources</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: &quot;Reputable&quot; sources">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:126px;"><a href="/wiki/File:PiZZa2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/1/19/PiZZa2.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="134" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="124" data-file-height="134"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:PiZZa2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Time_cube" class="mw-redirect" title="Time cube">THE MATH CHECKS OUT!!</a></div></div></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></div>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a>: "PIZZAGATE IS A DIVERSION FROM THE GREATER CRIMES IN PODESTA WIKILEAKS"<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[26]</a></sup> (Well, yes it is, since <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">he's the one who made it an issue</a> in the first damn place.)</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer" title="The Daily Stormer">The Daily Stormer</a> (<a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">neo-Nazi</a>) headline: "Massive Cover-Up of Pizzagate Child Sex Ring Allegations"<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[27]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Stuff" title="The Right Stuff">The Right Stuff</a> (neo-Nazi) opening paragraph: "Make yourself aware of the information, use it to prepare memes and to make the lives of Leftists miserable. Do not run headlong into <a href="/wiki/Illuminati" title="Illuminati">Illuminati</a> conspiracy, that has been a failing tactic in the past, so we must exercise extreme caution around this topic."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[28]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/What_Does_It_Mean" class="mw-redirect" title="What Does It Mean">What Does It Mean</a> (conspiracist) headline: "Assassination Of <a href="/wiki/Finnish" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish">Finnish</a> Reporters Investigating Bizarre 'Pizzagate' Plot Puzzles Russia"<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[29]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Smoloko_News" title="Smoloko News">Smoloko News</a> (anti-Semitic) headline: DHS Insider: CIA AND MOSSAD BEHIND DC PEDO RING<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[30]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/YourNewsWire" title="YourNewsWire">YourNewsWire</a> (<a href="/wiki/Clickbait" title="Clickbait">clickbait</a>) headline: "Pizzagate: <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> Cover Up Another Huge Pedophile Scandal"<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[31]</a></sup></li>
<li>The New Nationalist (neo-Nazi) headline: "Will General Flynn Bust the DC Pizzagate Pedophile Ring?"<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[32]</a></sup></li>
<li>We Occupy Earth, (conspiracist) headline: "BREAKING&nbsp;!!! Julian ASSANGE Dead man SWITCH goes off after Exposing Hillary CLINTON&nbsp;!"<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[33]</a></sup></li>
<li>WebLine News (<a href="/wiki/Clickbait" title="Clickbait">clickbait</a>) headline: "Triggered Reddit CEO Shuts Pizzagate Community Then Alters User Comments"<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[34]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Before_It%27s_News" title="Before It's News">Before It's News</a> (All of the above) headline: "'Pizzagate': How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite"<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[35]</a></sup></li></ul>
<p>When the unified neo-Nazi/<a href="/wiki/Tinfoil_hat" title="Tinfoil hat">tinfoil</a>/clickbait front is on your side, you know you're doing it <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">right</a>.
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<h2><span id="(Mis)infographics"></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".28Mis.29infographics">(Mis)infographics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: (Mis)infographics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>Several images circulating on Twitter claim to reveal the "<a href="/wiki/Truthiness" title="Truthiness">truth</a>" about Pizzagate. These collages are indistinguishable from displays of batshit insanity, commonly known as "crazy walls" or "serial killer walls".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[36]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Haig%27s_Law" title="Haig's Law">Haig's Law</a> may be useful here.
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<h3><span id="Infographic_#1"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Infographic_.231">Infographic #1</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Infographic #1">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:702px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/a/a1/Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg/700px-Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg" decoding="async" width="700" height="398" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/a/a1/Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg/1050px-Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/a/a1/Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg/1400px-Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3709" data-file-height="2110"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic1.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Taste the crazy: typical Pizzagate infographic.</div></div></div></div>
<p>The first infographic we look at eases us into the crazy world of a nutjob. It delves into several emails from the Clinton email leak:<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[38]</a></sup>
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<p>Hi John,
</p><p>The realtor found a handkerchief (I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yorus<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small>? They can send it if you want. I know you're busy, so feel free not to respond if it's not yours or you don't want it.
</p><p>Susaner
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</blockquote></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The author finds this email strange. It sounds like a handkerchief with a map of popular pizza joints printed on it. Certainly not evidence of a crime.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;">
<p>Mary and John
</p><p>I think you should give notice when changing strategies which have been long in place. I immediately realized something was different by the shape of the box and I contemplated who would be sending me something in the square shaped box. Lo and behold, instead of pasta and wonderful sauces, it was a lovely, tempting assortment of cheeses, Yummy. I am awaiting the return of my children and grandchildren from their holiday travels so that we can demolish them. Thank you so much. I hope you and your gang are well.
</p><p>I miss you both
</p><p>Best wishes fro a merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
</p><p>Herb
</p><p>Ps.<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> Do you think I’ll do better playing dominos<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> on cheese than on pasta?
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</blockquote></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">This appears to be jokingly referring to sending each other food as a strategy to impact each other's performance in games of dominoes. Strained Boomer humor, for sure. Conspiracy theorists may think this email is code for something, and "demolish them" can refer to children and grandchildren rather than the assortment of cheeses (and therefore "we" referring to eating the cheeses with the grandchildren). You'll see, however, the Podesta's Comet Pizza is a weird establishment. Playing a game of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dominoes" class="extiw" title="wp:dominoes" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: dominoes">dominoes</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> on a slice of cheese is tame compared to the hipster atmosphere the pizza place has to offer. More plausibly, the sentence could be interpreted to mean 'on [a stomach full of] cheese or pasta', rather than the nonsensical 'on [top of]'.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
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<h3><span id="Infographic_#2"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Infographic_.232">Infographic #2</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Infographic #2">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:702px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Pizzagate infographic2.jpg" src="/w/images/thumb/9/95/Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg/700px-Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg" decoding="async" width="700" height="399" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/95/Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg/1050px-Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/95/Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg/1400px-Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3297" data-file-height="1881"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div></div></div></div></div>
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<table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><b>Now if you have made it here, there are many[,] many more mails talking about pizza, walnuts, hotdogs, pizza partys,<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> etc; every link is in the pastebin[.] check for yourself: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200508213320/https://pastebin.com/8qk1WCsr">http://pastebin.com/8qk1WCsr</a></b>
</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">A pizza place has mails talking about pizza. <i>Suspicious!!</i>
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</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><b>We don't mean to distort the narrative to mean something else but before we continue[,]</b>
</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><a href="/wiki/Argument_by_assertion" title="Argument by assertion">Argument by assertion</a>. Merely asserting that you aren't distorting the narrative doesn't — gasp! — mean you aren't. Just because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris" class="extiw" title="wp:Robert Tappan Morris" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Robert Tappan Morris">Robert Tappan Morris</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> didn't mean to create a worm, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm#The_mistake" class="extiw" title="wp:Morris worm" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Morris worm#The mistake">didn't stop him from wreaking havoc on the Internet</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup>
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</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><b>YOU need to know something, a piece of information that will help you recognize the patterns, signs, symbols, codewords, etc: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/wiki/FBI_pedophile_symbols">https://wikileaks.org/wiki/FBI_pedophile_symbols</a></b>
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</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">This infographic introduces a declassified <a href="/wiki/Pedophile" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedophile">pedophile</a> sign, telling the reader to keep it in mind for later. In addition, the graphic links to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code" class="extiw" title="wp:Handkerchief code" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Handkerchief code">Handkerchief code</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>. The screenshot <i>very</i> crudely tacks on an entry for a white handkerchief (to indicate the person is a pedophile). The idea of white symbolizing children seems entirely fabricated, as there is simply no evidence to support this connection.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[note 11]</a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Also, there isn't any care for <a href="/wiki/Critical_thinking" title="Critical thinking">critical thinking</a>; <a href="/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">you should just trust all the most contrived patterns you're seeing only because you're actively looking for them while ignoring everything that inconveniences the narrative</a>.
</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><b><font color="orange">Why investigate this place?</font></b><br><b>Most of the mails in the Podesta Leaks refer to the Cheese Pizza, Pasta, or just Pizza in a cryptic way, but that's not all, let's check THE FACTS:</b></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Aw yeah. I see our master craftsman is taking lessons from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities" class="extiw" title="wp:GeoCities" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: GeoCities">GeoCities</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> webdesign with some sexy <a href="/wiki/Green_ink" title="Green ink">orange ink</a>. Pro-tip: Putting "THE FACTS" in all caps doesn't start making crazy speculation <i>actual</i> facts.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">[Band list screenshot]<br>[Establishment screenshot which welcomes all ages]
</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Notice how the images don't actually prove anything and are completely devoid of any meaning? Get used to this because presenting images with no meaning is something this author is very, <i>very</i> good at. One image is a bunch of tags that are "friends" of the establishment, which includes Heavy Breathing, the name of a band. This is highlighted in green for emphasis because and only because "Heavy Breathing" is a weird, creepy name, and can be associated with sex acts, which seems like a perfect fit for torturous pattern seekers. It's strange how pizza and cheese are highly contrived code words that confirm a conspiracy, but "Heavy Breathing" is much more explicit, and that <i>also</i> confirms the conspiracy. Finally, for some reason "brightestyoungthings" isn't highlighted, but oh well, might as well highlight everything. "Pandahead" is probably a code word for something out there anyway.
<p>"All ages" is a very common phrase in the punk scene. It just means that no alcohol will be served, so that those under 21 (the legal drinking age in the US) can enjoy the show too. It's extremely common to see shows advertised as "all ages" and there is nothing sexual about it at all.
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</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">[A screen capture of Comet Ping Pong's FaceBook page]
<p>[Comet Ping Pong's Facebook profile picture]
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</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">A picture of man who truly loves his pizza. It's an exaggerated cartoon that exaggerates like every other cartoon. That's how jokes work. And these people claim the left has no sense of humor...
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<p>This infographic takes images off of Comet Ping Pong's FaceBook — which are band posters — and points things out with little analysis.
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<table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><b><font color="red">◀ <i>Look at the handkerchief code again</i></font></b></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The text points to a logo for the band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coathangers" class="extiw" title="wp:The Coathangers" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: The Coathangers">The Coathangers</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> The author attempts to imply that the drops on the logo are linked to the handkerchief code, but note that most of the colors in the rainbow (including white, now, since it's been crudely forged into a screenshot of the Wikipedia article) are components of the handkerchief code, so literally any image with color can be interpreted through their lens. Never mind that they're already completely ignoring the whole "handkerchief" part of the code.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><b><i><font color="green">Well apart from the weird imagery and occultism references[,] some of you may have pickup,<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"></span></sup></small></font></i><font color="green"><small>sic<i>]</i></small><i> these have nothing illegal, but we kept digging and the rabit<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"></span></sup></small></i><small>sic<i>]</i></small><i> hole was too deep...</i></font></b></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">According to an article from Slate, Cauterucci and Fischer suggest that the restaurant's unorthodox and downright weird imagery is the reason behind the conspiracy:<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[41]</a></sup>
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<p>So why Comet? It’s possible that alt-righters susceptible to conspiracy theories might have latched onto any D.C. pizza place (they think the word pizza is a pedophilic code word). And it’s true that Comet’s owner, James Alefantis, has some connections to Democratic Party bigwigs. But there’s something special about Comet Ping Pong, and it’s that distinctive character, sadly, that may have allowed the campaign against it to fester. Comet is, after all, D.C.'s weirdo pizza place.
</p><p>For the better part of a decade, Comet has been both a neighborhood hang for young families as well as a reliable home for eccentrics, queers, outsiders, and their art. Alefantis, who owns another restaurant on the same street and is a formidable player in the D.C. art world, fills his restaurant with a rotating collection of installations from local visual artists. The pingpong tables in the back room regularly get cleared out for concerts featuring up-and-coming local acts alongside touring bands that could easily book the bigger venues in town. While families eat pizza in the front, D.C. punks cheer on their friends and idols in the back. Even when the headliner is a band called Sex Stains, the vibe is generally pretty wholesome.
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</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><i><b><font color="red">&gt;Sex Stains<br>&gt;ALL AGES</font></b></i></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The author uses <a href="/wiki/Green_ink" title="Green ink">red ink</a> and <a href="/wiki/4chan" title="4chan">4chan</a> "&gt;"s to show professional journalism is afoot.
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Stains" class="extiw" title="wp:Sex Stains" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Sex Stains">Sex Stains</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> is a punk rock band that the author apparently has a problem with. Apparently, the band got accused of being involved in a pedophile ring and wrote this letter to the press:<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[42]</a></sup>
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<p>Sex Stains.<br>
A band name we decided on after 100 suggestions by random people on Facebook because every name we could think up was already taken.
We are just a punk rock band from L.A.
We are NOT pedophiles. Just the thought of that is sickening!<br><br>
What the hell happened here?<br>
A few months ago, we passed through DC on a week long mini tour. We booked a show at Comet. We were told it's an ok place for bands to play, so we did. That's about the extent of our involvement with or knowledge of this venue.<br>
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There was absolutely NO PLOT to purposefully use offensive symbols or to mess with peoples heads. There was/is ZERO interest in anything having to do with children. No one in the band had any knowledge of the triangle/spirals horrid symbolism. We're shocked &amp; disgusted by the theory that we are somehow linked to Pedophelia<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> rings or Satanic cults, and also by the hateful comments &amp; accusations we've been receiving. WE ARE NOT pedophiles and do NOT support or promote it. Period. Again, we are just a punk rock band.
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</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/9/91/Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg/300px-Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="226" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/91/Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg/450px-Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/91/Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg/600px-Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg 2x" data-file-width="837" data-file-height="630"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic-3_rip.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><i><b><font color="red">could it be?</font></b></i></div></div></div>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The graphic points out hearts in two band posters, Cold Beat and <span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cinemahearts.com/">Cinema Hearts</a>,<img alt="#default=Link }}" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Icon_External_Link.png" decoding="async" title="#default=Link }}" width="12" height="12" data-file-width="12" data-file-height="12"></span> because a heart symbol was used by pedophiles at one point. Note that the hearts in either logo are just normal heart symbols lacking the smaller ones inside, the distinctive characteristic of the pedophile logo. The heart symbol is possibly one of the most common symbols on Earth. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda" class="extiw" title="wp:The Legend of Zelda" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: The Legend of Zelda">The Legend of Zelda</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup></i> video game series has a lot of heart symbols. With this logic, the <i>Zelda</i> series promotes pedophilia.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><i><b><font color="red"><big>Heavy Breathing</big><br>(This band is fucking weird)</font></b></i></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Thanks for your opinion. And we'll like to let you know that quirky names and surreal imagery (such as the decapitated woman in the band poster) are extremely common for bands.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
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<div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:702px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Pizzagate infographic 4.jpg" src="/w/images/thumb/1/12/Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg/700px-Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="700" height="399" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/1/12/Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg/1050px-Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/1/12/Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg/1400px-Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2885" data-file-height="1646"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_4.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div></div></div></div></div>
<table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#f9f9f9;font-size:135%;font-weight:bold;border:thin solid #CCC;text-align:center;color:#000000;width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Original (mis)infographic</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="background-color:#f9f9f9;font-size:135%;font-weight:bold;border:thin solid #CCC;text-align:center;color:#000000;width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Analysis</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Pizzagate infographic 4 rip.jpg" src="/w/images/thumb/4/40/Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg/300px-Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="115" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/40/Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg/450px-Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/4/40/Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg 2x" data-file-width="457" data-file-height="175"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div></div></div></div>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The shirt is a reference to the L'Enfant Cafe-Bar in D.C., whose owner is pictured in the image, and which itself is named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the designer of much of the layout of Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[43]</a></sup>
Proponents claim that the owner James Alefantis changed his name to signal a hidden message, "J’aime L'enfants" or "I love children" in French. Such a message would be lost to illicit clients who don't know French. Careful facts don't get in the way of a tasty conspiracy: it also is grammatically incorrect in <a href="/wiki/French" class="mw-redirect" title="French">French</a> (correct would be "j'aime les enfants" or "j'aime des enfants") (though <a href="/wiki/Shoehorning" title="Shoehorning">it can still be made to fit</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">[44]</a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
</p><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Pizzagate infographic 4 rip2.jpg" src="/w/images/thumb/c/c9/Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg/300px-Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="700" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/c/c9/Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg/450px-Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/c/c9/Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="527" data-file-height="1229"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_4_rip2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div></div></div></div>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Our top investigator shows us screenshots from Joshua Ryan Vogelsong's instagram profile. On there, there's Photoshopped gay porn to be about pizza, a nude man on pizza, a nude man with pizza on his crotch, and a male penis ejaculating pizza. While the infographic author thinks this is pedophilia symbolism, this is not the case, as we are reasonably certain that pedophilia needs to involve, you know… children. According to Vogelsong's profile description:
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<p><b>Joshua Ryan Vogelsong</b> @gaybashdc @donnaslash <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://homosuperior.bandcamp.com/releases">homosuperior.bandcamp.com</a>
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<p>Yup, Vogelsong is gay. This explains all the sexual imagery of men.
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<table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_5.png" class="image"><img alt="Pizzagate infographic 5.png" src="/w/images/thumb/f/f8/Pizzagate_infographic_5.png/300px-Pizzagate_infographic_5.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="602" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/f8/Pizzagate_infographic_5.png/450px-Pizzagate_infographic_5.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/f/f8/Pizzagate_infographic_5.png/600px-Pizzagate_infographic_5.png 2x" data-file-width="803" data-file-height="1612"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate_infographic_5.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div></div></div></div>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">This infographic attempts to link a person and two restaurants to pedophile ring through symbol similarities: 
<ol><li>Besta Pizza<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56">[45]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[46]</a></sup> (the red logo) with the Boy Lover Symbol;<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58">[47]</a></sup></li>
<li>Comet Ping Pong (a logo with two ping pong paddles) with the "Child Lover" symbol</li>
<li>A symbol found on Terasol Bistro's website with the "Girl Lover" symbol.</li></ol>
Aside from the first logo comparison, the other two logos lack any fair comparison. The restaurant Besta Pizza's old logo just happens to look similar to the official "Boy Love" symbol. Because of these remote similarities, cranks conclude that the two pizza places and Clinton are part of a pedophile ring; quite a <a href="/wiki/Jumping_to_conclusions" title="Jumping to conclusions">jump</a> when you consider the widely-known pedophile symbols would be the <b>last</b> symbol someone would choose to use for a secret pedophile ring.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
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<table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><div style="background: black;"><font color="white">How much longer will society ignore these inconvenient truths? When a pattern emerges, will you ignore it? Real children get abused every day, is your fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist going to stop you from achieving justice?<br><b>#PedoFiles</b> #SprititCooking #Anonymous</font></div></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Mere coincidences don't hold up in a court of law as evidence. Any graphic designer worth their salt knows triangles and hearts are extremely common and basic shapes that can be found everywhere.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>
</p><h3><span id="Podesta_email_&quot;code_words&quot;"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Podesta_email_.22code_words.22">Podesta email "code words"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Podesta email &quot;code words&quot;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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My friend texted me that he had fries at the bowling alley last night. Now I'm like 95% sure he's smoking <a href="/wiki/Crack" class="mw-redirect" title="Crack">crack</a> behind the Arby's.</div>
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<td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—JokedUp<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59">[48]</a></sup></cite>
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<p><a href="/wiki/Cranks" class="mw-redirect" title="Cranks">Cranks</a> speculated that words and phrases used in leaked Clinton-related emails were pedophile codewords. (Of course, these words could also be used normally in normal conversations, but apparently cranks feel the pedophile meanings are somehow more "believable".)<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">[49]</a></sup> No attempt is made to prove that such a code exists, it's merely asserted without evidence.
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<p>One (mis)infographic features an explanatory paragraph that speculates on the extent of the conspiracy and who's involved in it:<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61">[50]</a></sup>
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<p>It is <a href="/wiki/WAKE_UP" class="mw-redirect" title="WAKE UP">becoming increasingly clear</a> that many of "the <a href="/wiki/Elite" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite">elite</a>" including <a href="/wiki/Vague" class="mw-redirect" title="Vague">high ranking politicians, celebrities and very wealthy people</a> are operating a global <a href="/wiki/Sex_trafficking" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex trafficking">sex trafficking</a> ring. They are doing it <a href="/wiki/FEMA_death_camps" class="mw-redirect" title="FEMA death camps">under the guise of helping children in need</a> (fostering, rehoming, mentoring etc). <a href="/wiki/Vague" class="mw-redirect" title="Vague">Big money is changing hands</a>. <a href="/wiki/Vague" class="mw-redirect" title="Vague">Big players are heavily involved</a>. <a href="/wiki/Satanism" title="Satanism">Satanic rituals</a> are involved. <a href="/wiki/Freemason" title="Freemason">Freemasons</a> are involved. <a href="/wiki/Reptilians" title="Reptilians">The people who control everything you see, read and hear</a> are involved.
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<p>Of course, every politician is part of the conspiracy — with the exception of Donald Trump, because he "<a href="/wiki/No_true_Scotsman" class="mw-redirect" title="No true Scotsman">isn't really a true politician, even as president</a>".
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<ul><li>An infographic claims that codewords used by pedophiles are used in Clinton-related emails. But aside from "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chicken&amp;defid=1128324">chicken</a>", terms like "sauce", "pasta", "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pizza">pizza</a>", "handkerchief",<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[51]</a></sup> and "pillows" are not documented terms used by pedophiles; they were <a href="/wiki/PIDOOMA" title="PIDOOMA">pulled out of thin air</a>.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Adherents believe that the supposed pedophile ring <a href="/wiki/Satanic_panic" class="mw-redirect" title="Satanic panic">also worships Satan</a>, citing as evidence a jokey email signature used by retired Foreign Service officer Lewis Amselem: "With fingers crossed, the old <a href="/wiki/Rabbit%27s_foot" title="Rabbit's foot">rabbit's foot</a> out of the box in the attic, I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch" class="extiw" title="wp:Moloch" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Moloch">Moloch</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> …"<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[52]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65">[note 12]</a></sup> Never mind that Moloch isn't Satan.</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Pizza.jpg">Pizza.jpg</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Pizza.jpg">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:232px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/f/f1/Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg/230px-Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="173" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/f1/Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg/345px-Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/f/f1/Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg/460px-Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="360"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pizzagate-mm-pizza.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The attachment</div></div></div>
<p>The alleged cornerstone of Pizzagate is an attachment found in a forwarded email from <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> advisor Doug Band in 2009 called "pizza.jpg". The attachment contains a photo of two adults enjoying pizza with a kid, which is supposedly evidence of child molestation; however, the email and its attachment were completely misinterpreted.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66">[54]</a></sup> What "Pizza.jpg" actually shows is American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling along with a young girl, possibly Lee's daughter Hana. The three are eating pizza after Clinton secured their release from captivity in <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> in August 2009. "As John said, it doesn't get any better than this," Band comments to Clinton aide <a href="/wiki/Huma_Abedin" title="Huma Abedin">Huma Abedin</a>, Podesta, and others. "Nice", Podesta responds.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67">[55]</a></sup>
</p><p>No child abuse. No pedophile ring. Yet cranks continued to cook up nutty conspiracies based on the photo.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68">[56]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69">[57]</a></sup>
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<td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—@OmsToTheWorld<sup id="cite_ref-omg_slaves_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-omg_slaves-70">[58]</a></sup></cite>
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<td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—@SlotrowHornbth<sup id="cite_ref-omg_slaves_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-omg_slaves-70">[58]</a></sup></cite>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Lessons_and_conclusions">Lessons and conclusions</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Lessons and conclusions">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<h3><span id="Crème_de_la_Kremlin"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Cr.C3.A8me_de_la_Kremlin">Crème de la Kremlin</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Crème de la Kremlin">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Sociology professor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeynep_Tufekci" class="extiw" title="wp:Zeynep Tufekci" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Zeynep Tufekci">Zeynep Tufekci</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> commenting on the Podesta e-mail leak<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71">[59]</a></sup></cite>
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<p>Pizzagate was confirmed in Senate intelligence committee hearings by Clint Watts to be part of a <a href="/wiki/Russian" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian">Russian</a> "Active Measures" online operation pushing <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a>, ludicrous conspiracies, and a general pro-Russian agenda.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73">[61]</a></sup> These findings lent support to what Glen Caplin, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, had argued previously:<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74">[62]</a></sup>
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<p>By dribbling these out every day, WikiLeaks is proving they are nothing but a propaganda arm of the Kremlin with a political agenda doing <a href="/wiki/Putin" class="mw-redirect" title="Putin">Putin</a>'s dirty work to help elect Donald Trump.
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<h3><span id="This_is_why_we_can't_have_nice_things"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="This_is_why_we_can.27t_have_nice_things">This is why we can't have nice things</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: This is why we can't have nice things">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>Thanks to Pizzagate, something called "cybersteria" (i.e. public hysteria caused by internet trolls) is now a thing.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75">[63]</a></sup> That means <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">BS</a> (like Pizzagate) brainstormed by <a href="/wiki/Asshole" class="mw-redirect" title="Asshole">assholes</a> on 4chan or <a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a>, picked up by the Alex Jones Infowars crazy train, amplified and spread by <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a> sites, and then kept alive by Twitter trolls is something we're all going to have to live with.
</p><p>Facebook is now taking the problem of fake news (and its own role in perpetuating it) much more seriously, looking into ways to identify it and stop treating it like any other trending topic in the future.<sup id="cite_ref-vox_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vox-13">[8]</a></sup> Thanks, Facebook — too little, too late!
</p><p>A large fault with the story surrounding the Pizzagate situation is the nature of the allegations. In short, all of the "evidence" is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstantial_evidence" class="extiw" title="wp:Circumstantial evidence" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Circumstantial evidence">circumstantial</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup> and it's not even good circumstantial evidence, either. Even if Comet Pizza does have a pedophile ring, self-investigators are doing an extremely poor job pushing their case. To date, no evidence or victims have come forward to confirm the existence of a crime of any sorts at Comet Ping Pong.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76">[64]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_aftermath">The aftermath</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: The aftermath">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>John Podesta made a tweet which pissed off conspiracy theorists:
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<p>The tweet links to a <i>Washington Post</i> article by James Alefantis:<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78">[66]</a></sup>
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<p>Sadly, many people who don’t know me or my neighborhood cling to an absurd lie: that I and political figures including Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, run a child-slavery ring out of Comet’s basement.
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<p>Anti-Clinton conspiracy theorists and online trolls congregating on Reddit and 4chan decided that the words “pizza” and “cheese” in these emails were code for pedophilia.
</p><p>They ultimately pushed the lie that my pizza restaurant was being used to abduct children and commit heinous crimes.
</p><p>These lies ricocheted from shadowy chat rooms to various social-media platforms, encouraged by fake news articles and deliberately amplified by provocateurs such as Alex Jones, who broadcast these smears to his audience of millions.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Donutgate">Donutgate</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Donutgate">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>After the main course, it is customary to follow with dessert. In Pizzagate's case, this means the equally horrible Donutgate, with bizarre pedo ring theories centered on the quirky beloved Portland staple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Doughnut" class="extiw" title="wp:Voodoo Doughnut" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Voodoo Doughnut">Voodoo Doughnut</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79">[67]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81">[note 13]</a></sup>
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<p>As the Pizzagate conspiracy faded away, most of the energy in the movement got absorbed into <a href="/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon">QAnon</a>. However, as of 2019, the ashes of Pizzagate continue to smolder on within, with some <i>still</i> engaged in the quest of busting up elite pedo sex rings they perceive to be running in Comet Ping Pong's basement. (Comet Ping Pong, incidentally, does not have a basement.)
</p><p>On January 23, 2019, in what was possibly propelled by conspiracy theories (based on his parents earlier posting conspiracy videos pushed by "<a href="/wiki/Joe_M" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe M">Joe M</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83">[note 14]</a></sup>), Ryan Jaselskis attempted to set a black curtain at Comet Ping Pong on fire, bizarrely (but perhaps related to the conspiracy theory) leaving behind a diaper and baby food in the process.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84">[70]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85">[71]</a></sup>
</p><p>Several years late to the party, on November 28 2023, <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a> shared a meme on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> stating that "Pizzagate is real" and replied to several other Pizzagate tweets.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86">[72]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87">[73]</a></sup> Unsurprisingly given the devolution of Twitter under Musk, despite the Pizzagate conspiracy being long dead, Musk's signal boosts had the effect of temporarily increasing traffic relating to Pizzagate on Twitter by over 9500%.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88">[74]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coverup" title="Coverup">Coverup</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Deep_web" title="Deep web">Deep web</a> — Want to see more (mis)infographics? 4chan has you covered.</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Frazzledrip" title="Frazzledrip">Frazzledrip</a> — a breakaway <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> based on fake news, the <a href="/wiki/Dark_web" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark web">dark web</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Adrenochrome" title="Adrenochrome">adrenochrome</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Pissgate" title="Pissgate">Pissgate</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Satanic_panic" class="mw-redirect" title="Satanic panic">Satanic panic</a> — We'll have you know that Gen-X perfected the child sex conspiracy, thank you very much. And we didn't use memes or pizza, we did it with cocaine and hard work.</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks">WikiLeaks</a> — Those ultimately responsible for the entire mess.</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon">QAnon</a> — the crazier sequel that is more infamous</li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/">Snopes on Pizzagate</a></li>
<li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/09/the-pizzagate-gunman-belongs-to-a-long-a">The PizzaGate Gunman's Paranoid Rescue Fantasy Comes from a Long American Tradition</a>": because Pizzagate isn't the first time <a href="/wiki/Satanic_Ritual_Abuse" class="mw-redirect" title="Satanic Ritual Abuse">something like this</a> happened (link to <i><a href="/wiki/Reason_(magazine)" title="Reason (magazine)">Reason</a></i>).</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/12/the_comet_ping_pong_pizzagate_scandal_is_a_child_sex_ring_myth_for_the_age.html">"A Moral Panic for the Age of Trump".</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_of_Dr%C4%85sius_Kedys" class="extiw" title="wp:Case of Drąsius Kedys" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Case of Drąsius Kedys">Something like it in Lithuania, except it actually happened</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></sup></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrUvQ3W3nV4">"A real pizzagate implementation, by the clergy".</a></li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Forget the rest, the man mentioned pizza! Quick, to the <a href="/wiki/Kookmobile" title="Kookmobile">kookmobile</a>!</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wait a minute, does that mean he was there to investigate <i>himself</i>?</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Keeping in mind that <a href="/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">"looking" often means "finding"</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Like your typical D.C. pizza restaurant, but with <s><a href="/wiki/WAKE_UP" class="mw-redirect" title="WAKE UP">NWO sacrificial altars</a></s> ping pong tables.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Because <b>C</b>heese <b>P</b>izza, get it?</span>
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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Since if <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">someone</a> said something on the internet, it must be true, <i>right?</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Because <a href="/wiki/Credulity" title="Credulity">any negative story about crooked Hillary <i>must</i> be true, no matter how outlandish!</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">This about marks the definite point in the story where <b>extreme concern</b> is warranted.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">If only fake news peddlers had a damn conscience.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">One might say Alex Jones <i>welched</i> on the apology that likely kept him from facing the music on this one (see what we did there?)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-51">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Many sites have a wide variety of hanky codes, but not a single one says anything about white referring to children.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[40]</a></sup></span>
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<li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-65">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">We've all seen much stupider email sigs. Who would take this one seriously? Oh wait, <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christians</a> would!</span>
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<li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-81">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">This, of course, has no connection to a better-known scandal<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80">[68]</a></sup> involving pop star Ariana Grande in 2015.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-83">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">JoeM is a very prominent QAnon huckster, and one of the many co-authors behind a surprisingly (and depressingly) best-selling QAnon book.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82">[69]</a></sup></span>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pizzagate&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/K7eci">Wikileaks Bombshell Reveals Clinton Email "Where They Are Literally Pricing How Much It Costs to Transport Children."</a> (November 6, 2016) <i>Resurgence Media Network</i> (archived copy from 23 Nov 2016 06:04:10 UTC).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985">The Saga of 'Pizzagate': The fake story that shows how conspiracy theories spread</a> (2 December 2016) <i>BBC News</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pizzagate-shows-how-fake-news-hurts-real-people/2016/11/25/d9ee0590-b0f9-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html">Pizzagate shows how fake news hurts real people</a> (November 25, 2016) <i>Washington Post</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-JONES2-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-JONES2_5-0">4.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-JONES2_5-1">4.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-JONES2_5-2">4.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/16/alex-jones-deletes-video-which-he-had-told-his-audience-personally-investigate-pizzagate-restaurant/214846">Alex Jones Deletes Video In Which He Had Told His Audience To Personally "Investigate" "Pizzagate" Restaurant. Deletion Came After Listener Seeking To "Self-Investigate" Comet Ping Ping Fired Shots Inside</a> by Eric Hananoki (December 16, 2016 2:51 PM EST) <i>Media Matters</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=comet&amp;mfrom=&amp;mto=&amp;title=&amp;notitle=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;nofrom=&amp;noto=&amp;count=50&amp;sort=2#searchresult">The Podesta Emails</a> <i>Wikileaks</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese+pizza">cheese pizza</a> <i>Urban Dictionary</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cracked.com/article_24597_why-pizzagate-stupidest-conspiracy-theory-ever.html">Everything You Need To Know About Pizzagate (Is Insane)</a> (February 07, 2017) <i>Cracked</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-vox-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-vox_13-0">8.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-vox_13-1">8.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-vox_13-2">8.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-vox_13-3">8.3</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/5/13842258/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-fake-news">Pizzagate, the fake news conspiracy theory that led a gunman to DC's Comet Ping Pong, explained: How Pizzagate went from the musings of 4chan trolls to the cause for a gunman at Comet Ping Pong</a> by German Lopez (Dec 8, 2016, 11:15am EST) <i>Vox</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-comet_ping_pong_pizzagate_summary-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-comet_ping_pong_pizzagate_summary_14-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161114013840/https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5b1qtf/comet_ping_pong_pizzagate_summary/">Comet Ping Pong — Pizzagate Summary</a> <i>Reddit</i> (archived from 14 Nov 2016).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-JONES-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-JONES_15-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/13/1610677/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Alex-Jones-scrubs-pizzagate-content-cited-by-lunatic-gunman">Open thread for night owls: Alex Jones scrubs 'pizzagate' content cited by lunatic gunman</a> by Hunter (Dec 13, 2016 · 8:00 PM PST) <i>Daily Kos</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pizzagate">#pizzagate on Twitter</a> Twitter</span>
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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/pizzagate-alt-right-turkey-trolls-child-abuse/">How the alt-right's PizzaGate conspiracy hid real scandal in Turkey</a> by Efe Kerem Sozeri (Nov 23 at 4:47PM) <i>The Daily Dot</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Heavy-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Heavy_20-0">13.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Heavy_20-1">13.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/edgar-maddison-welch-comet-pizza-pizzagate-washington-dc-gunman-suspect-photos-pictures-facebook-conspiracy-north-carolina/">Edgar Maddison Welch: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know</a> by Tom Cleary (Dec 4, 2016 at 9:49pm) <i>Heavy.com</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/heres-what-we-know-about-the-pizzagate-gunman?utm_term=.bbNxNr2BQ#.qkdw52Arj">Here's What We Know About The Alleged "Pizzagate" Gunman: Edgar Maddison Welch was arrested after police said he came to investigate a ludicrous conspiracy theory that a popular restaurant secretly provides underage prostitutes to top Democrats</a> (Originally posted on Dec. 5, 2016 at 7:06 a.m. Updated on Dec. 5, 2016 at 2:22 p.m.) <i>Buzzfeed</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/05/media/fake-news-real-violence-pizzagate/index.html">Fake news, real violence: 'Pizzagate' and the consequences of an Internet echo chamber</a> by Brian Stelter (December 6, 2016: 9:30 AM ET) <i>CNN Money</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/05/gunman-detained-at-comet-pizza-restaurant-was-self-investigating-fake-news-reports">Washington gunman motivated by fake news 'Pizzagate' conspiracy: Washington restaurant Comet Ping Pong was target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton and an aide</a> (Monday 5 December 2016 07.51 EST) <i>The Guardian</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/3NYR3">A man just walked into the Comet restaurant in DC with a rifle. No shots heard. I'm ok, hiding in the red fox coffeeshop next door.</a> by Kent Hoshiko (12:11 PM - 4 Dec 2016) <i>Twitter</i> (archived from 7 Dec 2016 08:36:36 UTC).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-NYT-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-NYT_26-0">18.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-NYT_26-1">18.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-NYT_26-2">18.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/edgar-welch-comet-pizza-fake-news.html">The Comet Ping Pong Gunman Answers Our Reporter’s Question</a> by Adam Goldman (Dec. 7, 2016) <i>New York Times</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Alex Jones, <span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/https://www.infowars.com/a-note-to-our-listening-viewing-and-reading-audiences-concerning-pizzagate-coverage/">A Note to Our Listening, Viewing and Reading Audiences Concerning Pizzagate Coverage</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/https://www.infowars.com/a-note-to-our-listening-viewing-and-reading-audiences-concerning-pizzagate-coverage/">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/https://www.infowars.com/a-note-to-our-listening-viewing-and-reading-audiences-concerning-pizzagate-coverage/">w</a>]</sup></span> <i>Infowars,</i> 24 March 2017.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Tom O'Connor, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-apologize-pizzagate-fake-news-574025">Alex Jones Apologizes for 'Pizzagate' Fake News.</a> <i>Newsweek</i>, 24 March 2017.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/02/16/pizzagate-qanon-capitol-attack/">Pizzagate’s violent legacy: The gunman who terrorized a D.C. pizzeria is out of prison. The QAnon conspiracy theories he helped unleash are out of control.</a> by Michael E. Miller (February 16, 2021) <i>The Washington Post</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-stanley-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-stanley_32-0">22.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-stanley_32-1">22.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them</i> by Jason Stanley (2018) Random House. ISBN 9780525511830.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html">FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat</a> by Jana Winter (August 1, 2019) <i>Yahoo News</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-fbi-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-fbi_34-0">24.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-fbi_34-1">24.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/420379775/FBI-Conspiracy-Theory-Redacted">(U//LES) Anti-Government, Identity Based, and Fringe Political Conspiracy Theories Very Likely Motivate Some Domestic Extremists to Commit Crminal, Sometimes Violent Activity</a> (30 May 2019) <i>FBI Phoenix Field Office</i> via <i>Scribd</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-35">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-son-trump.html?_r=0">Trump Fires Adviser’s Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News</a> by Matthew Rosenberg, et al. (Dec. 6, 2016) <i>New York Times</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://www.infowars.com/pizzagate-is-a-diversion-from-the-greater-crimes-in-podesta-wikileaks/">Pizzagate Is A Diversion From the Greater Crimes in Podesta Wikileaks: Why not cover the hundreds of other dastardly deeds in the emails?</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/http://www.infowars.com/pizzagate-is-a-diversion-from-the-greater-crimes-in-podesta-wikileaks/">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/http://www.infowars.com/pizzagate-is-a-diversion-from-the-greater-crimes-in-podesta-wikileaks/">w</a>]</sup></span> by Alex Jones (December 5, 2016) <i>Infowars</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://www.dailystormer.com/massive-cover-up-of-pizzagate-child-sex-ring-allegations/">Massive Cover-Up of Pizzagate Child Sex Ring Allegations</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/http://www.dailystormer.com/massive-cover-up-of-pizzagate-child-sex-ring-allegations/">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/http://www.dailystormer.com/massive-cover-up-of-pizzagate-child-sex-ring-allegations/">w</a>]</sup></span> by Ben Richards (November 27, 2016) <i>Daily Stormer</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/qUd8Z">#PizzaGate</a> by Butch Leghorn (Nov 27, 2016) <i>The Right Stuff</i> (archived from 17 Mar 2017 00:09:57 UTC).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-39">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2180.htm">Assassination Of Finnish Reporters Investigating Bizarre "Pizzagate" Plot Puzzles Russia</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2180.htm">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2180.htm">w</a>]</sup></span> by "<a href="/wiki/Sorcha_Faal" title="Sorcha Faal">Sorcha Faal</a>" (December 5, 2016) <i>What Does It Mean</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://smoloko.com/?p=15548">DHS INSIDER: CIA AND MOSSAD BEHIND DC PEDO RING</a> (February 23, 2017) <i>smoloko.com</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://yournewswire.com/pizzagate-bbc-cover-up-pedophile-scandal/">Pizzagate: BBC Cover Up Another Huge Pedophile Scandal</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/http://yournewswire.com/pizzagate-bbc-cover-up-pedophile-scandal/">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/http://yournewswire.com/pizzagate-bbc-cover-up-pedophile-scandal/">w</a>]</sup></span> by "Baxter Dmitry" (December 3, 2016) <i>YourNewWire</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-42">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://www.newnationalist.net/2016/11/21/will-general-flynn-bust-the-dc-pizzagate-pediphile-ring/">NewNationalist — Will General Flynn Bust the DC Pizzagate Pedophile Ring? </a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/http://www.newnationalist.net/2016/11/21/will-general-flynn-bust-the-dc-pizzagate-pediphile-ring/">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/http://www.newnationalist.net/2016/11/21/will-general-flynn-bust-the-dc-pizzagate-pediphile-ring/">w</a>]</sup></span> by Thomas Müller (November 21, 2016) <i>The New Nationalist</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-43">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/https://weoccupyearth.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/hillary-clinton-pizzagate-child-trafficking-pedophilia-scandal/">WeOccupyEarth — Hillary Clinton PizzaGate Child Trafficking Pedophilia Scandal</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/https://weoccupyearth.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/hillary-clinton-pizzagate-child-trafficking-pedophilia-scandal/">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/https://weoccupyearth.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/hillary-clinton-pizzagate-child-trafficking-pedophilia-scandal/">w</a>]</sup></span> by Daniel J Towsey (November 21, 2016) <i>We Occupy Earth</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-44">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://archive.is/L046N">Triggered Reddit CEO Shuts Pizzagate Community then Alters User Comments</a> (November 24, 2016) <i>WebLine News</i> (archived from 8 Dec 2016 22:57:47 UTC).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-45">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="archive_link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://donotlink.it/http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2016/11/pizzagate-how-4chan-uncovered-the-sick-world-of-washingtons-occult-elite-2615694.html">"Pizzagate": How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite</a><sup>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/https://donotlink.it/http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2016/11/pizzagate-how-4chan-uncovered-the-sick-world-of-washingtons-occult-elite-2615694.html">a</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://donotlink.it/http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2016/11/pizzagate-how-4chan-uncovered-the-sick-world-of-washingtons-occult-elite-2615694.html">w</a>]</sup></span> (November 21, 2016 8:48) <i>Before It's News</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-46">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://crazywalls.tumblr.com/">Crazywalls</a> (October 25, 2017) <i>Tumblr</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-47">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32795">Email ID #32795</a> Wikileaks</span>
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<li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-48">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/30613">Email ID #30613</a> Wikileaks</span>
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<li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-49">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://user.xmission.com/~trevin/hanky.html">Gay Hanky Codes</a> by Trevin Beattie</span>
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<li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-50">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Handkerchief_code">Handkerchief code</a> <i>LGBT Project Wiki</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-52">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/12/06/comet_ping_pong_is_a_haven_for_weirdos_and_now_a_target.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_bot">Comet Is D.C.'s Weirdo Pizza Place. Maybe That’s Why It’s a Target.</a> by Christina Cauterucci &amp; Jonathan L. Fischer (Dec. 6 2016 11:57 AM) <i>Slate</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-53">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Tempey, Nathan (December 5, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dcist.com/2016/12/what_on_earth_is_pizzagate_why_did.php">"What On Earth Is Pizzagate And How Did It Result In Gunfire At Comet Ping Pong?"</a> by Nathan Tempey (Dec 5, 2016 3:35 pm) <i>DCist</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-54">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory#Debunking" class="extiw" title="wp:Pizzagate conspiracy theory" rel="nofollow">Pizzagate conspiracy theory § Debunking</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-55">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5f4fnz/james_alefantis_name_is_damn_close_to_jaime/">James Alefantis' name is damn close to J'aime al'enfants, which is French for "I love the child" #PizzaGate</a>, Reddit</span>
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<li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-56">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5bdslv/pol_figured_it_out_podesta_pizza_logo_is/">Figured it out — Podesta Pizza logo is LITERALLY PEDO CODE</a> (2016) <i>Reddit</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-57">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1145451/pg1">Reddit user Claims to have Connected PEDO ring to DOJ</a> by Maluhia (Nov, 6 2016 @ 05:38 PM) <i>Above Top Secret</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-58">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/wiki/FBI-pedophile-symbols.pdf">(U) Symbols and Logos Used by Pedophiles to Identify Sexual Preferences</a> (31 January 2007) <i>Federal Bureau of Investigation</i> via <i>WikiLeaks</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-59">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/261-politics/74516655?page=1">WikiLeaks: Pedophile Code Words Found In Podesta Emails</a> (2016) <i>Gamefaqs</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-60">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104031225/https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/794284672675147776">Search all Podesta emails for these keywords. We are uncovering a child sex ring.</a> by Jared Wyand (November 4, 2016) <i>Twitter</i> (archived from November 4, 2016).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-61">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161205163510/https://i.sli.mg/eoWIeB.jpg">Pizzagate infographic</a> <i>SLiMG</i> (archived from December 5, 2016).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-62">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://madworldnews.com/phrases-podesta-emails-hillary/">Disturbing Phrases In Podesta Emails Point To Hillary Crew Speaking In Code</a> by Dawn Parabellum (November 6, 2016) <i>Mad World News</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-63">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/14333">Hillary Clinton Email Archive</a> <i>Wikileaks</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-64">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/5az9ca/with_fingers_crossed_the_old_rabbits_foot_out_of/">DNC leaks</a> (2016) <i>Reddit</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-66">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8673">Re: pizza.jpg</a> Original email containing "pizza.jpg" (2009-08-08 00:21) <i>Wikileaks</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-67">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dcist.com/2016/12/what_on_earth_is_pizzagate_why_did.php">What on earth is Pizzagate?</a> by Nathan Tempey (Dec 5, 2016 3:35 pm) <i>DCist</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-68">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://madworldnews.com/phrases-podesta-emails-hillary/">Disturbing Phrases In Podesta Emails Point To Hillary Crew Speaking In Code</a> by Dawn Parabellum (November 6, 2016) <i>Mad World News</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-69">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5barzy/as_john_said_it_doesnt_get_any_better_than_this/">"As John said, it doesn't get any better than this" - Doug Band pizza.jpg</a> (2016) <i>Reddit</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-omg_slaves-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-omg_slaves_70-0">58.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-omg_slaves_70-1">58.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170218200338/https://twitter.com/OmsToTheWorld/status/794435310486691844">@CrazyJoezGalaxy also Podesta sent this pic with this email. Obviously Asian sex slaves</a> by @OmsToTheWorld (November 3, 2016) <i>Twitter</i> (archived from February 18, 2017).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-71">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html">WikiLeaks Isn't Whistleblowing</a> by Zeynep Tufekci (Nov. 4, 2016) <i>New York Times</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-72">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/russia-s-info-war-on-the-u-s-started-in-2014.html">Clint Watts' Testimony: Russia's Info War on the U.S. Started in 2014: Clint Watts is testifying Thursday morning before the Senate's intelligence committee on Russia’s interference in U.S. politics. Here's what he told the senators.</a> by Clint Watts (30 March 2017, 6:44 AM ET) <i>Daily Beast</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-73">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/russian-trolls-spread-baseless-conspiracy-theories-like">Russian Trolls Spread Baseless Conspiracy Theories Like Pizzagate And QAnon After The Election: Less than two weeks after the first "Q" post appeared on 4chan, a Russia-backed troll account began amplifying the conspiracy theory on Twitter.</a> by Salvador Hernandez (August 15, 2018, at 10:49 p.m. ET) <i>BuzzFeed News</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-74">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-wall-street-speeches-podesta-emails-229689">Hacked 80-page roundup of paid speeches shows Clinton 'praising Wall Street': Clinton's speaker's bureau flagged hundreds of excerpts from her high-dollar speeches that could prove damaging.</a> by Kyle Cheney (10/12/2016 03:37 PM EDT Updated 10/12/2016 04:09 PM EDT) <i>Politico</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-75">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2016/12/07/with-pizzagate-is-cybersteria-the-new-normal/#6596d24d4375">With Pizzagate, Is Cybersteria The New Normal?</a> by Fruzsina Eordogh (Dec 7, 2016 @ 06:56 PM) <i>Forbes</i>.</span>
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