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Painting Snopes as propaganda is a cynical strategy to enable fake news.
Its painfully clear this tranny porn thing was a scam and this thread proves the entire point of the OP.
The saga of 'Pizzagate': The fake story that shows how conspiracy theories spread
No victim has come forward.
There's no investigation.
And physical evidence?
That doesn't exist either.
But thousands of people are convinced that a paedophilia ring involving people at the highest levels of the Democratic Party is operating out of a Washington pizza restaurant.
The story riveted fringes of Twitter - nearly a million messages were sent last month using the term "pizzagate".
So how did this fake story take hold amongst alt-right Trump supporters and other Hillary Clinton opponents?
Let's start with the facts.
In early November, as Wikileaks steadily released piles of emails from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, one contact caught the attention of prankster sites and people on the paranoid fringes.
James Alefantis is the owner of Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington. He's also a big Democratic Party supporter and raised money for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was once in a relationship with David Brock, an influential liberal operative.
Alefantis - who's never met Clinton - appeared in the Podesta emails in connection with the fundraisers.
And from these thin threads, an enormous trove of conspiracy fiction was spun.
Users of 4chan, a message board known for free speech, extreme content and trollish behaviour, began posting speculation and supposed connections gleaned from internet searches. They trawled Alefantis' Instagram feed for pictures of children and the modern art which lines his restaurant's walls, and dreamt up a paedophile sex ring involving prominent politicians and political donors.
Soon there were protesters outside of Comet Ping Pong. Alefantis even invited some of them in - they filmed the encounter and put it on YouTube.
"They ignore basic truths," Alefantis tells BBC Trending. For instance, the conspiracy supposedly is run out of the restaurant's basement. "We don't even have a basement."
"Sometimes an innocent picture of a child in a basket is just an innocent picture of a child in a basket and not proof of a child sex trafficking ring," he says.
The conspiracy theory bubbled up from 4chan onto the mainstream internet when a Reddit user posted a long do ent with all of the "evidence" several days before the US election. It first appeared on a section of the site popular with Donald Trump supporters from the extremist white nationalist alt-right.
Alefantis, along with Comet Ping Pong employees and others, started to get threatening messages. He locked his Instagram account.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESThe fake story remained the preserve of 4chan and alt-right Reddit until mid-November, when Turkish pro-government media outlets suddenly took an intense interest.
Their tweets were in Turkish, but they used the English hashtag: #Pizzagate.
As outlined by Efe Kerem Sozeri of the Daily Dot, supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cottoned onto the tale as a way to accuse opponents of hypocrisy.
Those opponents, the logic goes, had been sharply critical of Erdogan following the revelation of a real child abuse scandal at a Turkish government-linked foundation. So why weren't they similarly outraged about "pizzagate"?
The rumour also provided a distraction from another controversy: Erdogan's party also recently proposed a controversial draft bill that would have given amnesty to child abusers if they married their victims. It was later withdrawn after protests.
Sozeri says liberal and secular opponents of Erdogan, already sensitive to mistreatment of children, also picked up on the rumours.
The Turkish tweets boosted "pizzagate" to whole new levels of prominence online. Around the same time, Donald Trump backed away from talk of an investigationof his defeated opponent over her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.
On Twitter alt-right activists, conservative journalists, and others who had urged Clinton's prosecution over the emails - took up the "pizzagate" cause with renewed vigour.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985
That little TSA loves her some #pizzagate!
This Pizzagate thing is re ed, but so were lib s' constant attempts to "prove" that 9/11 was an "inside job."
That was not just Lib s. This was your general run of the mill conspiracy guys. Many of Which appear to have found a home with Trump. But your point is well taken. It seems to me the extreme personalities are more likely to lap up fake news as they look for anything to bolster some thought due to phobias.
This was about the most convoluted, bizarre, Byzantinian construct I've ever read. Hard to believe people could string such a thing together.
The same BBC that covered up for serial child rapists Jimmy Savile?The saga of 'Pizzagate': The fake story that shows how conspiracy theories spread
No victim has come forward.
There's no investigation.
And physical evidence?
That doesn't exist either.
But thousands of people are convinced that a paedophilia ring involving people at the highest levels of the Democratic Party is operating out of a Washington pizza restaurant.
The story riveted fringes of Twitter - nearly a million messages were sent last month using the term "pizzagate".
So how did this fake story take hold amongst alt-right Trump supporters and other Hillary Clinton opponents?
Let's start with the facts.
In early November, as Wikileaks steadily released piles of emails from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, one contact caught the attention of prankster sites and people on the paranoid fringes.
James Alefantis is the owner of Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington. He's also a big Democratic Party supporter and raised money for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was once in a relationship with David Brock, an influential liberal operative.
Alefantis - who's never met Clinton - appeared in the Podesta emails in connection with the fundraisers.
And from these thin threads, an enormous trove of conspiracy fiction was spun.
Users of 4chan, a message board known for free speech, extreme content and trollish behaviour, began posting speculation and supposed connections gleaned from internet searches. They trawled Alefantis' Instagram feed for pictures of children and the modern art which lines his restaurant's walls, and dreamt up a paedophile sex ring involving prominent politicians and political donors.
Soon there were protesters outside of Comet Ping Pong. Alefantis even invited some of them in - they filmed the encounter and put it on YouTube.
"They ignore basic truths," Alefantis tells BBC Trending. For instance, the conspiracy supposedly is run out of the restaurant's basement. "We don't even have a basement."
"Sometimes an innocent picture of a child in a basket is just an innocent picture of a child in a basket and not proof of a child sex trafficking ring," he says.
The conspiracy theory bubbled up from 4chan onto the mainstream internet when a Reddit user posted a long do ent with all of the "evidence" several days before the US election. It first appeared on a section of the site popular with Donald Trump supporters from the extremist white nationalist alt-right.
Alefantis, along with Comet Ping Pong employees and others, started to get threatening messages. He locked his Instagram account.
Their tweets were in Turkish, but they used the English hashtag: #Pizzagate.
As outlined by Efe Kerem Sozeri of the Daily Dot, supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cottoned onto the tale as a way to accuse opponents of hypocrisy.
Those opponents, the logic goes, had been sharply critical of Erdogan following the revelation of a real child abuse scandal at a Turkish government-linked foundation. So why weren't they similarly outraged about "pizzagate"?
The rumour also provided a distraction from another controversy: Erdogan's party also recently proposed a controversial draft bill that would have given amnesty to child abusers if they married their victims. It was later withdrawn after protests.
Sozeri says liberal and secular opponents of Erdogan, already sensitive to mistreatment of children, also picked up on the rumours.
The Turkish tweets boosted "pizzagate" to whole new levels of prominence online. Around the same time, Donald Trump backed away from talk of an investigationof his defeated opponent over her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.
On Twitter alt-right activists, conservative journalists, and others who had urged Clinton's prosecution over the emails - took up the "pizzagate" cause with renewed vigour.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985
That little TSA loves her some #pizzagate!
Get the out of here with this weak ass article, it doesn't debunk and doesn't even mention what people have uncovered.
And about that basement he claims he doesn't have
http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/f...mes-alefantis/
MW: What was it they couldn’t believe you had made?
ALEFANTIS: Well, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers. You can just buy the roasted peppers in a can. Or you can buy garlic oil. Some products you can get, and they’re consistent and they’re easy. But I didn’t even know that existed actually until they said that. I was like, “What do you mean? There’s another way? You can just buy these things?” Because a lot of restaurants will open a can and put it on. Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in
http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/P...gton-DC-20008/
Property Details
Property address 5037 Connecticut Ave NW,
Washington DC, DC 20008
Parcel ID 1986-0825
Neighborhood CHEVY CHASE
Acreage 0.09
Property class Store-Restaurant(045)
Zoning Neighborhood Shopping (C-1)
Square footage 3,925
Year built 1932
Stories 2
boutons_deux make sure to next post the New York Times article calling it fake news. Don't forget to mention the CEO of the New York Times Mark Thompson was head of the BBC and lied during the Jimmy Savile investigation.
That's a damn good looking pizza in the article tbh.
#Pizzagate, how's that taste, TSA, my little ?
Your no basement theory was just debunked by Alefantis himself. You're my little today.#Pizzagate, how's that taste, TSA, my little ?
It was mostly libs. In their warped minds, the "truther" accomplished two goals for them: make Dubya and the GOP look like some of the biggest villains in history, and deflect the blame from radical Islamists.
There aren't a lot of great public numbers on the partisan breakdown of adherents to that conspiracy theory, but the University of Ohio yesterday shared with us the crosstabs of a 2006 poll they did with Scripps Howard that's useful in that regard.
"How likely is it that people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East?" the poll asked.
A full 22.6% of Democrats said it was "very likely." Another 28.2% called it "somewhat likely."
That is: More than half of Democrats, according to a neutral survey, said they believed Bush was complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-sm...sh-knew-035224
I thought they thought Bush gave Radical Islamists some go ahead?
Oh , I don't know what they were thinking it was so utterly bizarre.
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