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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:35PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:35PM (#438124) Journal

    Now, NPR can't be expected to have expertise in this, but they should be able to label advertisements as such. That is their part of the responsibility.

    Or maybe they got suckered by a cleverly-written press release presented as "news." It happens when two generations of journalists have been taught that "reporting" means "grab something juicy off the AP Wire!!!"

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