Posted on 11/22/2016 8:19:40 AM PST by TigerClaws
From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, weve come under constant assault
Since being featured in a viral fake news story about Hillary Clinton, the owner of a Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant said the threats he and his business have received are endless.
A fake story published before the presidential election accused the restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, of being part of a child abuse ring led by Clinton and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, the New York Times reported. The entire story was false.
But in the weeks since the story appeared, restaurant owner James Alefantis has received hundreds of threatening messages and phone calls from people who believed the story to be true.
From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, weve come under constant assault, Alefantis told the Times. Ive done nothing for days but try to clean this up and protect my staff and friends from being terrorized.
The prevalence of fake news on the internet has recently been hotly debated, amid questions about whether the spread of fake news stories might have helped Donald Trump win the presidential election.
Alefantis was a Clinton supporter, but he said he has never met her. The speculation about Comet Ping Pong began when Alefantis appeared in an email to Podesta, discussing a fundraiser for Clinton, the Times reported. Podestas email account was hacked and published by WikiLeaks in the months leading up to the election.
The conspiracy theory, dubbed Pizzagate, has continued to spread among adamant believers online.
Its endless, Alefantis said.
Yep. #PizzaGate gone from Reddit
via twitter shared off of Gab. Guess I'm not *that* surprised.
Cage on top of tennis table in background of photo:
marked really creepy stuff
Alefantis says he never met HIllary. This article shows they were scheduled to meet at this event, in the Presidential Pizza section: http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-influence/2016/03/etsy-registers-podesta-for-sberbank-lend-lease-cov-for-bacardi-livingston-for-curacao-and-st-maarten-pizza-for-hillary-213495
Christopher Wallace and “Sir Kim” reportedly at Tony Podesta and James Alefantis’s joint birthday party 10-24-16 http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2016/10/scoop-obama-endorsing-30-house-candidates-the-narrative-down-ballot-bloodbath-halperin-goes-to-london-to-interview-assange-bdays-tony-podesta-and-jonathan-weisman-216999
Good find!
It moved to vote.
Breitbart posted (re-posted) this today. “What’s in your closet, John Podesta?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4V50eWOgro
BTTT! Good find, indeed.
More real news...
Just got in on #GAB #GABFAM and #PizzaGate info galore. https://gab.ai
I’m liking how quickly Gab is becoming popular in the wake of Tweeter’s censorship and protection of pedophile members(list of pedophile twits exposed).
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