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posted by on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-believe-everything-you-read dept.

The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.

US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.

[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.

[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:08PM (#437734)

    I was on /pol/ when the whole pizzaagate thing came up. Really never got interested in it but some of those Podesta emails were really creepy. I do not know when a bunch of neckbeards crossed over into generating fake news, but it seems to me that we have this whole freedom of speach thing.

    Although I guess clickbait articles about the top 10 ways trump is destroying america with whatever conspiracy theories lie within is totally legit real high quality news that only CNN/MSNBC/etc are allowed to run.