The silly title of our investigation and the extrememly silly definition both came from the NYTimes, whose only source for their definition (HRC running a sex slave ring frmo the basement of Comet) was a single comment underneath a post from some random guy on Facebook.
I detailed all of this in a series of 3 posts here on Voat, but they have disappeared. So it might be important to call more attention to some facts...
From Steemit: The Debunking of The New York Times' Debunking of Pizzagate
Analysis
We need only look at the first sentence of this supposedly objective article to uncover the first piece of misinformation.
In the span of a few weeks, a false rumor that Hillary Clinton
and her top aides were involved in various crimes snowballed
into a wild conspiracy theory that they were running a
child-trafficking ring out of a Washington pizza parlor.
No one--or at least no one credible--is asserting that Hillary Clinton and her top aides (meaning John Podesta and co.) are running a child-trafficking ring out of Comet Ping Pong Pizza. It has merely been alleged--and not without merit--that they are involved in a paedophile ring. It's also not a widely held theory that this child-trafficking ring is being run specifically out of Comet Ping Pong Pizza. A better representation of the theory would be to state that Comet is alleged to be a paedophile-friendly environment which invites paedophile-friendly bands to perform there, and has curious ties to the government establishment in Washington DC.
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Zorrilla ago
I wasn't there at the very inception of this scandal, as I started looking into it on November 4th, 2016, but as I recall, the term Pizzagate was not in wide usage at that point. The first usage of the term may have been by Instagram user "Pizzagate2016", who created the account to annoy Alefantis on IG before he set his account to private.