Elon Musk is now boosting the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory

Elon Musk on Monday boosted the dangerous, years-old “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just days after being roundly criticized and facing an advertiser exodus following his embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. Elon Musk’s X sues media watchdog Media Matters over report on pro-Nazi content on the social media site In a post Monday, an X user attempted to link the founder of Media Matters — the progressive media watchdog that last week identified ads for major brands running alongside pro-Nazi content on X — to the owner of the “Pizzagate restaurant.” Musk replied: “Weird.” By replying, Musk called the post to the attention of his more than 160 million followers on X.

Pizzagate is an anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory that spun up on 4chan, Reddit, Twitter and other platforms in the final days before the 2016 US presidential election. Believers imagined a pedophilia ring supposedly being run out of a Washington, DC pizza shop that involved Clinton and other Democrats.

It’s just the latest conspiracy theory Musk has drawn attention to using X. Musk last week agreed with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, endorsing the claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.” Musk last year also gave credence to a fringe conspiracy theory about the violent attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by posting a link to an article full of baseless claims about Paul Pelosi.

No. There was a lot of talk about children in dungeons under the restaurant. I'm not aware of anybody saying it was about porn on Alfantis's computer. There was a lot of talk about procuring children for the elite.

There was some talk of dungeons, but there was a lot more to it. I was keeping up with the stuff posted on pizzagate back before it became infamous or better known. At first I was skeptical, but the more information that came out, the more it looked like something wasn't right.

There is some sick stuff going on there, and I saw more than enough evidence to convince me that these people need to be investigated.

I saw videos from comet pizza that were just bizarre, and seemingly only make sense if you look at them from the child exploitation/abuse angle.

Their art shows that they would hold on the premises featured paintings so disgusting that you want to throw up. I still get creeped out when I think of those paintings, all of which show what can only be regarded as representations of children being tortured and debauched.

There is also the topic of the Podesta brothers and the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Hell of a lot of circumstantial evidence that seems to implicate them in her disappearance.

Pizzagate was a lot of stuff, but the claim of a torture dungeon is what the media-liars focused on.

I'm not convinced there isn't a torture dungeon, but it likely isn't on the premises of Comet Pizza.

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