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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:45PM
You're trying to conflate a game, where everyone involved knows its fake and not real and has no impact on reality, with people pushing fake news onto others as if its true with the intent of having everyone believe that its factually correct and describes whats occurring in reality?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:47PM
Its crazy, right?
What could possibly lead someone to make that kind of equivalency?
All I can come up with is debilitating mental illness.