Pizzagate, for those who don’t
know, is a fake conspiracy that arisen from the wikileaks of Hillary Clinton’s
emails conspired by some of the users in 4chan. The false conspiracy theory
said that a pizza place named Comet Ping Pong mentioned in some of Hillary’s
emails was the headquarters for a child sex trafficking ring. It said that
there were code words for different things in Hillary’s emails, the code words
ranged from “pizza”, “cheese”, or “hotdogs”. This 4chan conspiracy spread like
wildfire to many different sources from Twitter to Reddit to fake news sources.
Pizzagate even reached different languages from countries like Saudi Arabia.
Of course, no legal
action came from these claims, because well, there was literally no evidence to
back them up. However, a man named Edgar Welch decided to investigate this
theory himself, by going to Comet Ping Pong with a rifle and searching for the
kids he believed were held there. In that time he investigated, Welch fired a
shot but nobody was injured. The people in the restaurant managed to escape and
the police apprehended Welch after locking down the area. Welch never did find
any evidence to the conspiracy.
Now, Welch wasn’t the
only person to have threatened the restaurant because of pizzagate. The
manager, as well as the employees received many death threats and many people
went to the restaurant just to investigate for themselves. None of them finding
anything.
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