In March , the personal email account of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton 's campaign chair , was hacked in a spear phishing attack. WikiLeaks published his emails in November Proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory falsely claimed the emails contained coded messages that connected several high-ranking Democratic Party officials and U.
Members of the alt-right , conservative journalists, and others who had urged Clinton's prosecution over her use of an unrelated private email server spread the conspiracy theory on social media outlets such as 4chan , 8chan , Reddit and Twitter.
Pizzagate is generally considered a predecessor to the QAnon conspiracy theory. It also generated another offshoot conspiracy theory, called Frazzledrip , which involved Hillary Clinton participating in the ritual murder of a child. Pizzagate resurged in , mainly due to QAnon. While initially it was spread by only the far-right , it has since been spread by teens on TikTok "who don't otherwise fit a right-wing conspiracy theorist mold: the biggest Pizzagate spreaders on TikTok appear to otherwise be mostly interested in topics of viral dance moves and Black Lives Matter ".
GoHillary PodestaEmails Proponents of the conspiracy theory read the emails and alleged they contained code words for pedophilia and human trafficking. Deriving its name from the Watergate scandal , the story was later posted on fake news websites , starting with Your News Wire , which cited a 4chan post from earlier that year. According to the BBC , the allegations spread to "the mainstream internet" several days before the U.
Everyone associated with the business is making semi-overt, semi-tongue-in-cheek, and semi-sarcastic inferences towards sex with minors. The artists that work for and with the business also generate nothing but cultish imagery of disembodiment, blood, beheadings, sex, and of course pizza. Reddit released a statement afterwards, saying, "We don't want witchhunts on our site".
