Pizzagate | conspiracy theory

In QAnon: The origins of QAnon
…a conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate. In 2016 the website WikiLeaks released a trove of e-mails that Russian hackers had stolen from the account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair for her 2016 presidential election bid. On the website 4chan—a forum characterized by trollish behaviour, extreme content, and lax
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