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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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:20PM
I find it interesting to look at the wording used in the mainstream press articles on this subject.
Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims...
Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory (not a conspiracy). It is certainly not baseless. You can argue that the evidence is thin or insufficient (and I think it is), but baseless? There is nothing at all? There are several odd emails (dreaming of John Podesta's hot dog stand in Hawaii?), a pizza place with a pedo symbol in their logo, and weird Instagram posts by the owner of the pizza shops (e.g., a naked guy with slice of pizza draped over his dick). How does the Guardian know that the claims are false? They may be unsubstantiated, but false?