“There are probably 4-5 posts @voat explaining the Brietbart tweet and labeling other news stories as hoaxes. “
Yet we still have “pizzagate” believers here, right now, arguing passionately that these things are evidence for their theory. So whatever self-policing those guys are doing is not working. The bad info gets put out there, the believers pick it up and run with it, and they will never stop believing it, because it appeals to their confirmation bias.
“Can so many people from all around the world be deluded into making different, separate connections between the same individuals/venues over and over?”
Oh come on now. Can so many people be deluded into thinking that Donald Trump is a secret racist? People can be talked into any kind of hogwash if it appeals to their pre-existing biases.
“AFAIK, there is an FBI site (at least I have seen it posted several times) that has the various code logos. These are not the same as the food=abuse so-called codes.”
No, but the believers still run around saying the “pizza code” came from the FBI, or the NYPD, or just pretending that it is some well-verified thing.
Incorrect. Just yesterday in this very thread, a reference was made to a post on VOAT exploring the possibility that a convicted pedophile from Australia, who was in the US to play rugby, was the same rugby player pictured in the comet pizza owner's instagram.
Despite the rugby tie between the two, and the very close facial appearances, the posters on the VOAT thread became more of the belief it was someone else, who they think they have now identified. And this is what often happens on those threads, someone posts a lead and then they end up throwing many out, just as any investigative team would do. Meanwhile, you seem to have a problem with any investigation being done at all.
The misunderstandings in the state of the investigation are clearly due to the lack of honest national media coverage. Blame them, not those amateurs that are doing their work for them.