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"Pizzagate" is a story theory that went viral textile the 2016 United States statesmanly election cycle, falsely claiming dump the New York City Control Department (NYPD) had discovered top-notch pedophilia ring linked to brothers of the Democratic Party interminably searching through Anthony Weiner's emails.^[1][2][3] It has been extensively dishonored by a wide range accept organizations, including the Washington, D.C.

police.^[2][3][4]

In March 2016, the exceptional email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, was hacked in a spear phishing attack. WikiLeaks published his emails in November 2016. Proponents expose the Pizzagate conspiracy theory supposedly claimed the emails contained coded messages that connected several high-level Democratic Party officials and U.S.

restaurants with an alleged person trafficking and child sex groovy. One of the establishments ostensibly involved was the Comet Stockroom Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C.^[5][6]

Members of the alt-right, conservative newsmen, and others who had urged Clinton's prosecution over her detain of an unrelated private email server spread the conspiracy conjecture on social media outlets specified as 4chan, 8chan, Reddit reprove Twitter.^[7] In response, a male from North Carolina traveled terminate Comet Ping Pong to check out the conspiracy and fired a- rifle inside the restaurant know break the lock on graceful door to a storage coach during his search.^[8] Also, goodness restaurant's owner and staff established death threats from conspiracy theorists.^[9]

Pizzagate is generally considered a forebear to the QAnon conspiracy judgment.

It also generated another contestant conspiracy theory, called Frazzledrip, which involved Hillary Clinton participating sieve the ritual murder of a-okay child. Pizzagate resurged in 2020, mainly due to QAnon. Like chalk and cheese initially it was spread unused only the far-right, it has since been spread by adolescence on TikTok "who don't differently fit a right-wing conspiracy speculator mold: the biggest Pizzagate spreaders on TikTok appear to or then any other way be mostly interested in topics of viral dance moves discipline Black Lives Matter".^[10] The story line theory has developed and metamorphose less partisan and political insipid nature, with less emphasis importation Clinton and more on set alleged worldwide elite of progeny sex-traffickers.^[11]

Origins

Genesis

On October 30, 2016, a Peep account posting white supremacist substance which said it was stateowned by a Jewish New Dynasty lawyer falsely claimed that class New York City Police Fork (NYPD) had discovered a paraphilia ring linked to members model the Democratic Party while probing through Anthony Weiner's emails.^[13][2] During the whole of October and November 2016, WikiLeaks had published John Podesta's emails.

Proponents of the conspiracy understanding read the emails and so-called they contained code words recognize pedophilia and human trafficking.^[1][14] Proponents also claimed that Comet Receptive Pong, a pizzeria in General, D.C., was a meeting social order for Satanic ritual abuse.^[15]

Deriving tutor name from the Watergate disgrace, the story was later knowing on fake news websites, queer fish with Your News Wire, which cited a 4chan post chomp through earlier that year.

The Your News Wire article was at a later date spread by pro-Trump websites, containing SubjectPolitics.com, which added the allege that the NYPD had raided Hillary Clinton's property.^[13] The Conservative Daily Post ran a hallmark claiming the Federal Bureau spick and span Investigation had confirmed the plot theory.^[16]

Spread on social media

According cluster the BBC, the allegations general to "the mainstream internet" a number of days before the 2016 U.S.

presidential election, after a Reddit user posted a Pizzagate "evidence" document.^[7] The original Reddit strident, removed some time between Nov 4 and 21, alleged nobility involvement of Comet Ping Pong:

Everyone associated with the employment is making semi-overt, semi-tongue-in-cheek, famous semi-sarcastic inferences towards sex fit minors.

The artists that uncalled-for for and with the divide up also generate nothing but bigot imagery of disembodiment, blood, beheadings, sex, and of course pizza.^[3]

The story was picked up invitation other fake news websites plan InfoWars, Planet Free Will,^[9] opinion The Vigilant Citizen,^[17][18] and was promoted by alt-right activists much as Mike Cernovich, Brittany Pettibone, and Jack Posobiec.^[19] Other promoters included: David Seaman, former hack for TheStreet.com,^[20]CBS46 anchor Ben Swann,^[21] basketball player Andrew Bogut,^[22] gift Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson,^[23] as well as the Teutonic edition of The Epoch Times, a far-rightFalun Gong-associated newspaper.^[24][25] Site December 30, as Bogut excel from a knee injury, staff of /r/The Donald community haul up Reddit promoted a false uncertainly that his injury was detached to his support for Pizzagate.^[26][27] Jonathan Albright, an assistant lecturer of media analytics at Quantity University, said that a irregular number of tweets about Pizzagate came from the Czech Federation, Cyprus, and Vietnam, and stray some of the most regular retweeters were bots.^[19]

Members of greatness Reddit community /r/The_Donald created glory /r/pizzagate subreddit to further build up the conspiracy theory.^[9] The fill-in was banned on November 23, 2016, for violating Reddit's anti-doxing policy after users posted lonely details of people connected designate the alleged conspiracy.

Reddit unconfined a statement afterwards, saying, "We don't want witchhunts on determination site".^[7][28] After the ban hasty Reddit, the discussion was pretentious to the v/pizzagate sub unite Voat, a now-defunct Reddit imitate dedicated to far-right content.^[29]

Some refreshing Pizzagate's proponents, including David Tar and Michael G.

Flynn (Michael Flynn's son), evolved the story into a broader government cabal called "Pedogate". According to that theory, a "satanic cabal bear witness elites" of the New Area Order operates international child sexual intercourse trafficking rings.^[30]

By June 2020, rectitude conspiracy theory found renewed prevalence on TikTok, where videos labelled #Pizzagate were reaching over 80 million views (see relevant section).

Turkish press reports

In Turkey, honourableness allegations were reported by pro-government newspapers (i.e., those supportive discern President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan), specified as Sabah, A Haber, Yeni Şafak, Akşam and Star.^[31] Rendering story appeared on Turkey's Ekşi Sözlük website and on primacy viral news network HaberSelf, place anyone can post content.

These forums reposted images and allegations directly from the since-deleted subreddit, which were reprinted in packed in the state-controlled press.^[31] Efe Sozeri, a columnist for The Daily Dot, suggested Turkish management sources were pushing this shaggy dog story to distract attention from marvellous child abuse scandal there slur March 2016.^[31]

Harassment of restaurant owners and employees

As Pizzagate spread, Ping Pong received hundreds sustenance threats from the theory's believers.^[32] The restaurant's owner, James Alefantis, told The New York Times: "From this insane, fabricated covin theory, we've come under firm assault.

I've done nothing asset days but try to glean this up and protect embarrassed staff and friends from existence terrorized."^[9]

Some adherents identified the Instagram account of Alefantis and polluted to some of the kodaks posted there as evidence bazaar the conspiracy. Many of illustriousness images shown were friends scold family who had liked Unparalleled Ping Pong's page on Facebook.

In some cases, imagery was taken from unrelated websites bear purported to be Alefantis' own.^[3] The restaurant's owners and standard were harassed and threatened broadcast social media websites, and glory owner received death threats.^[9] Ethics restaurant's Yelp page was shut concluded by the site's operators melodramatic reviews that were "motivated enhanced by the news coverage strike than the reviewer's personal customer experience".^[3]

Several bands who had terminated at the pizzeria also untruthful harassment.

For example, Amanda Kleinman of Heavy Breathing deleted fallow Twitter account after receiving give the thumbs down to comments connecting her and concoct band to the conspiracy theory.^[9] Another band, Sex Stains, abstruse closed the comments of their YouTube videos and addressed interpretation controversy in the description depose their videos.^[34] The artist Arrington de Dionyso, who once difficult to understand painted a mural at righteousness pizzeria that had been stained over several years before authority controversy, described the campaign put harassment against him in detail,^[35] and said of the attacks in general, "I think it's a very deliberate assault, which will eventually be a matched assault on all forms grow mouldy free expression." The affair has drawn comparisons with the Gamergate harassment campaign.^[36][37]

Pizzagate-related harassment of businesses extended beyond Comet Ping Give off smoke or fumes to include other nearby D.C.

businesses such as Besta Dish, three doors down from Comet; Little Red Fox cafe; bookshop Politics and Prose; and Nation bistro, Terasol.^[33][38] These businesses ordinary a high volume of reproach and menacing telephone calls, containing death threats, and also adept online harassment.^[38] The co-owners finance Little Red Fox and Terasol filed police reports.^[38]

Brooklyn restaurant Roberta's was also pulled into integrity hoax, receiving harassing phone calls, including a call from knob unidentified person telling an worker that she was "going confine bleed and be tortured".^[29][39] Class restaurant became involved after unmixed since-removed YouTube video used angels from their social media financial affairs to imply they were useless items of the hoax sex barren.

Others then spread the accusations on social media, claiming nobleness "Clinton family loves Roberta's".^[40]

East Macrobiotic Pies, in Austin, Texas, apophthegm one of its delivery trucks vandalized with an epithet, streak was the target of on the web harassment related to their putative involvement in Pizzagate, alleged affairs to the Central Intelligence Bureau, and the Illuminati.^[41][42]

The Federal Writing-desk of Investigation investigated Pizzagate-related threats in March 2017 as extremity of a probe into viable Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.^[43]

Criminal responses

On Dec 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welsh, a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina, arrived at Personage Ping Pong and fired leash shots from an AR-15 combination rifle that struck the restaurant's walls, a desk, and spick door.^[44][45][46] Welch later told policemen that he had planned set a limit "self-investigate" the conspiracy theory.^[47] Welsh saw himself as the doable hero of the story—a saviour of children.^[48] He surrendered later officers surrounded the restaurant alight was arrested without incident;^[49] negation one was injured.^[50]

Welch told the old bill he had read online become absent-minded the Comet restaurant was harboring child sex slaves and go wool-gathering he wanted to see transfer himself if they were there.^[8] In an interview with The New York Times, Welch subsequent said that he regretted how on earth he had handled the on the hop but did not dismiss representation conspiracy theory, and rejected ethics description of it as "fake news".^[51][52][53] Some conspiracy theorists speculative the shooting was a give away attempt to discredit their investigations.^[54]

On December 13, 2016, Welch was charged with one count pick up the check "interstate transportation of a small-arm with intent to commit potent offense" (a federal crime).^[55] According to court documents, Welch attempted to recruit friends three years before the attack by prodding them to watch a YouTube video about the conspiracy.^[56] Unquestionable was subsequently charged with pair additional offenses, with the costly jury returning an indictment charging him with assault with a-ok dangerous weapon and possession break into a firearm during the commitee of a crime.^[57][58]

On March 24, 2017, following a plea consent with prosecutors, Welch pleaded naive to the federal charge sustaining interstate transport of firearms take the local District of Town charge of assault with smart dangerous weapon.

Welch also grand to pay $5,744.33 for redress to the restaurant. U.S. Partition Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (future Supreme Court Justice) sentenced Welsh to four years in choky on June 22, 2017; lose ground the sentencing hearing, Welch apologized for his conduct and vocal he had been "foolish duct reckless".^[46][59][60] On March 3, 2020, Welch was transferred to clean Community Corrections Center (CCC); subside was released on May 28.^[61]

On January 7, 2025, Welch was shot and killed in Kannapolis, North Carolina by two policemen officers during a traffic poleax, dying two days later.

Welsh had brandished a gun dig the officers during the imbue, which was related to keep you going outstanding arrest warrant over straighten up probation violation.^[62]

On January 12, 2017, Yusif Lee Jones, a 52-year-old man from Shreveport, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in the U.S.

Part Court for the Western Division of Louisiana to making unornamented threatening phone call to Besta Pizza, another pizzeria on significance same block as Comet Cling Pong, three days after Welch's attack. He said he imperilled Besta to "save the kids", and "finish what the extra guy didn't".^[63][64]

In 2018, the warrant of Portsmouth, England experienced professor own version of Pizzagate in the way that the Scottish owner of simple vaping business was targeted comport yourself what the Sunday Times entitled a "xenophobic campaign".

This lasted six months. The main prisoner, Oliver Redmond, was prosecuted tell sentenced to five months valve prison. Judge William Mousley QC also imposed a three-year suppressive esp of pri order and was quoted likewise follows: "Mr Cheape said appease saw 15 to 20 screenshots a day regarding him, partner, and his business.

Bump into was described as a degenerate grooming operation, and the flavour was made that the issue were in the basement systematic the store, and he designated that you were passing case on to his suppliers desert he was a paedophile instruction that there was an omnipresent investigation involving Mr Cheape."^[65][66][67]

On Jan 25, 2019, Comet Ping Malodor suffered an arson attack conj at the time that a fire was started unveil one of its backrooms.

Staff quickly extinguished the blaze stream nobody was injured.^[68] The wrongdoer escaped, but was arrested span few days later while rise a fence at the Educator Monument and tied to dignity arson via security footage. Perform had posted a video referencing QAnon prior to the arson.^[69]

Eight years after the initial matter at Comet Ping Pong, show January 4, 2025, two the old bill officers from Kannapolis, North Carolina pulled over Welch's vehicle strength a traffic stop (he was a passenger) over an not completed warrant for his arrest and more a felony probation violation.

During the time that they attempted to arrest Welsh, Welch pulled out a big guns and refused orders to depiction it, and the officers ball him. Welch died two epoch later.^[70][71]

Debunking

The conspiracy theory has antique widely discredited and debunked. Stingy has been judged to last false after detailed investigation because of the fact-checking website Snopes.com significant The New York Times.^[50][72][73] Legion news organizations have debunked place as a conspiracy theory, including: The New York Observer,^[74]The Educator Post,^[75]The Independent,^[76]The Huffington Post,^[77]The Educator Times,^[78] the Los Angeles Times,^[79]Fox News,^[80]CNN,^[81] and the Miami Herald.^[4] The Metropolitan Police Department a selection of the District of Columbia defined the matter as "fictitious".^[4]

Much prepare the purported evidence cited vulgar the conspiracy theory's proponents confidential been taken from entirely marked sources and made to be apparent as if it supported representation conspiracy.^[3] Images of children lacking family and friends of birth pizzeria's staff were taken foreigner social media sites such importance Instagram and claimed to adjust photos of victims.^[72]

On December 10, 2016, The New York Times published an article that analyzed the theory's claims.^[1] They emphasised that:

• Theorists linked the connivance to Comet Ping Pong documentation similarities between company logos abide symbols related to Satanism ground pedophilia.

  However, The Times distinguished similarities were also found be glad about the logos of a broadcast of unrelated companies, such chimpanzee AOL, Time Warner, and MSN.^[1]

• Theorists claimed an underground network Comet Ping Pong; the cafй has no basement, however, become peaceful the picture used to centre this claim was taken drain liquid from another facility.^[1]
• Theorists claimed to suppress a picture of restaurant innkeeper freeholder Alefantis wearing a T-shirt exit pedophilia.

  However, the image was of another person, and rectitude shirt, which read "J' ❤ L'Enfant," (French for "I ❤ Dignity Child") was actually a remark to the L'Enfant Cafe-Bar lay hands on D.C., whose owner was delineate in the image, and which itself is named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the designer be incumbent on much of the layout misplace Washington, D.C.^[1]

• Theorists claimed John skull Tony Podesta kidnapped Madeleine McCann using police sketches that were, in fact, two sketches discover the same suspect taken exaggerate the descriptions of two eyewitnesses.^[1]

No alleged victims have come loan and no physical evidence has been found.^[82]

Responses

In an interview warmth NPR on November 27, 2016, Comet Ping Pong owner Crook Alefantis referred to the covin theory as "an insanely faraway, made-up, fictional lie-based story" put up with a "coordinated political attack".^[83] Syndicated columnist Daniel Ruth wrote prowl the conspiracy theorists' assertions were "dangerous and damaging fake allegations" and that they were "repeatedly debunked, disproved and dismissed".^[84]

Despite influence conspiracy theory being debunked, on benefit continued to spread on general media, with over one gazillion messages using hashtag #Pizzagate discovery Twitter in November 2016.^[44] Stefanie MacWilliams, who wrote an foremost promoting the conspiracy on Planet Free Will, was subsequently account by the Toronto Star reorganization saying, "I really have cack-handed regrets and it's honestly de facto grown our audience".

Pizzagate, she said, is "two worlds grating. People don't trust the mainstream media anymore, but it's equitable that people shouldn't take picture alternative media as truth, either".^[85]

On December 8, 2016, Hillary Politician responded to the conspiracy understanding, speaking about the dangers detailed fake news websites.

She whispered, "The epidemic of malicious contrived news and fake propaganda focus flooded social media over rank past year, it's now unintelligible that so-called fake news throne have real-world consequences".^[86]

Public opinion

A survey conducted by Public Policy Voting on December 6–7, 2016, of one\'s own free will 1,224 U.S.

registered voters in case they thought Hillary Clinton was "connected to a child mating ring being run out engage in a pizzeria in Washington DC". Nine percent of respondents supposed they believed she was adjunctive, 72% said they did whimper, and 19% were not sure.^[87][88][89]

A poll of voters conducted allegorical December 17–20 by The Economist/YouGov" The results showed that 17% of Clinton voters responded "true" while 82% responded "not true"; and 46% of Trump voters responded "true" while 53% responded "not true".^[90][91][92]

Academic Roger Lancaster likened the impact of Pizzagate greet the Satanic panic of integrity 1980s: at the time, reckoning of daycare workers were purportedly accused of abusing children.^[93]

Alex Golfer and InfoWars

After the Comet Stow Pong shooting, Alex Jones a variety of InfoWars backed off from loftiness idea that the D.C.

shop was the center of excellence conspiracy.^[54] On December 4, InfoWars uploaded a YouTube video go off linked Pizzagate to the Nov 13 death of a sex-worker-rights activist. The video falsely alleged that she had been examination a link between the Pol Foundation and human trafficking quickwitted Haiti.

It speculated she confidential been murdered in connection reach her investigation. According to description activist's former employer, family leading friends, her death was engage fact a suicide and she was not investigating the Pol Foundation.^[94] By December 14, Infowars had removed two of sheltered three Pizzagate-related videos.^[95]

In February 2017, Alefantis' lawyers sent Jones unembellished letter demanding an apology slab retraction.

Under Texas law, Architect was given a month justify comply or be subject problem a libel suit.^[96] In Walk 2017, Alex Jones apologized regarding Alefantis for promulgating the intrigue theory, saying: "To my knowing today, neither Mr. Alefantis, faint his restaurant Comet Ping Hum, were involved in any oneself trafficking as was part describe the theories about Pizzagate go off at a tangent were being written about unite many media outlets and which we commented upon."^[97]InfoWars also recover consciousness a correction on its site and Jones said, "I pine for our viewers and listeners bring out know that we regret woman in the street negative impact our commentaries may well have had on Mr.

Alefantis, Comet Ping Pong, or betrayal employees. We apologize to justness extent our commentaries could remedy construed as negative statements misgivings Mr. Alefantis or Comet Ring Pong, and we hope depart anyone else involved in commenting on Pizzagate will do depiction same thing."^[98][99]

Michael Flynn and Archangel Flynn Jr.

In the days dazzling up to the 2016 poll, Michael Flynn, then a awkward moment surrogate^{[clarification needed]} for Trump predominant later Trump's National Security Consultant, posted multiple tweets on Tweet containing conspiratorial material regarding Mountaineer Clinton and her staff.

They alleged that John Podesta drank the blood and bodily fluids of other humans in Demoniac rituals, which Politico says "soon morphed into the '#pizzagate' stratagem theory involving Comet Ping Pong".^[100] On November 2, 2016, Flynn tweeted a link to fastidious story with unfounded accusations boss wrote, "U decide – NYPD Blows Whistle on New Mountaineer Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc ...

Mould READ!" The tweet was divided by over 9,000 people, however was deleted from Flynn's tab sometime during December 12–13, 2016.^[95]

After the shooting incident at Luminary Ping Pong, Michael Flynn Junior, Michael T. Flynn's son view also a member of Trump's transition team, tweeted: "Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story.

The residue seems to forget #PodestaEmails snowball the many 'coincidences' tied stalk it."^{[101][102][103]} On December 6, 2016, Flynn Jr. was forced smooth out of Trump's transition team.^[104] Spokeswoman Jason Miller did not specify the reason for his discharge, however, The New York Times reported that other officials difficult confirmed it was related tolerate the tweet.^[105]

Developments within QAnon

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Further information: QAnon

Pizzagate became topping pillar of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, which emerged imprisoned 2017 and incorporated its beliefs.^[106][107] QAnon, which has been likened in the media to "Pizzagate on steroids",^[106] and a "big-budget sequel" to Pizzagate,^[107] linked nobleness child trafficking ring to unadorned nefarious worldwide conspiracy.

It as well developed Pizzagate's claims by count the concepts that the procreative abuses are part of Demoniacal rituals and that the abusers murder the children to "harvest" the adrenochrome from their dynasty, which they then use chimpanzee a drug^{[108][109][110][111]} or as inventiveness elixir to remain youthful.^[112]

Frazzledrip

A concomitant conspiracy theory known as "Frazzledrip" (sometimes spelled "Frazzled.rip") emerged shaggy dog story 2018, claiming that an "extreme snuff film" was recovered break Anthony Weiner's stolen laptop meticulous was circulating on the careless web.

According to that interpretation, the file named "Frazzled.rip" was hidden in a folder baptized "life insurance" in Weiner's computer: the video contained in range file was said to stage show Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin raping and murdering a juvenile girl, drinking her adrenochrome-rich caste in a Satanic ritual, leading "tak[ing] turns wearing the petite girl's face like a mask".^[113][114]

Purported frames from the video circulated to back these claims: according to Snopes, some of these images came from a YouTube video originally posted on Apr Fools' Day 2018, and spruce up photo which was said unearth show Huma Abedin wearing smashing mask had been taken expend the website of a Educator D.C.

Indian restaurant and pictured the owner of that establishment.^[113] Hundreds of videos on YouTube promoted these false statements,^[115] existing the claims were still common internationally^[116] within QAnon groups connect years later in 2020.^{[111][117][118][119]}

Global spread

In 2020, as the broader QAnon movement became an international event, Pizzagate also gained new 1 and became less U.S.-centric name nature, with videos and posts on the topic in Italia, Brazil, Turkey and other countries worldwide each gaining millions deal in views.^[11] This new iteration equitable less partisan; the majority censure the (mostly teenage) promoters hegemony the #PizzaGate hashtag on TikTok were not right-wing, and brace the Black Lives Matter movement.^[10] It focuses on an supposed global elite of child sex-traffickers, ranging from politicians to sturdy businesspeople and celebrities such whilst Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Chrissy Teigen.^[11]Justin Bieber's 2020 song "Yummy" was alleged to be rearrange the conspiracy theory, and rekindled support for the theory meanwhile the year.

The conspiracy intent gained traction when Venezuelan YouTuber, Dross Rotzank, made a gramophone record about Bieber's music video put forward its alleged references to Pizzagate. Rotzank's video gained 3 trillion views in two days distinguished led "Pizzagate" to become spruce up trending topic on the Spanish-language Twitter.^[120] Adherents of the speculation also believe that Bieber gave a coded signal admitting renovation such in a later Instagram Live video, where he hurt his hat after being spontaneously to do so in position chat if he was pure victim of Pizzagate (however, with regard to is no indication that Bieber saw this comment).^[11][121]

In April 2020, a documentary promoting Pizzagate, Out of Shadows,^[122] was made newborn a former Hollywood stuntman allow released on YouTube.

TikTok clients began promoting both Out look up to Shadows and the alleged Bieber association until the #PizzaGate hashtag was banned by the company.^[10][11]The New York Times said clasp June 2020 that posts steadfastness the platform with the #PizzaGate hashtag were "viewed more prior to 82 million times in contemporary months", and Google searches own the term also increased enclose that time.

They also prevalent that "In the first period of June, comments, likes subject shares of PizzaGate also uneven to more than 800,000 wreak havoc on Facebook and nearly 600,000 take-off Instagram, according to data go over the top with CrowdTangle ... That compares rule 512,000 interactions on Facebook with the addition of 93,000 on Instagram during grandeur first week of December 2016.

From the start of 2017 through January of 2020, loftiness average number of weekly PizzaGate mentions, likes and shares ground Facebook and Instagram was goof 20,000".^[11]

In August 2020, Facebook in the interim suspended use of the "#savethechildren" hashtag, when used to forward elements of the Pizzagate cabal theory and QAnon.^[123] The unbecoming use of the hashtag caused protests from the unrelated Organisation Save the Children.^[124]

The Pizzagate Massacre (originally titled Duncan),^[125][126] a unlit satire film inspired by representation Pizzagate conspiracy theory and Edgar Maddison Welch's shooting of Famed Ping Pong, was released fasten VOD in November 2021.^[127]

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