Will Sommer tweeted his article. The comments are hilarious: https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1275053959472992256
The Comet Ping Pong conspiracy theory has been widely discredited, but it lives on with Gen Z.
Will Sommer Published Jun. 22, 2020 3:23AM ET
Get ready for Pizzagate, Round 2.
While YouTube has tried to root out the conspiracy theory about a Democratic child sex dungeon in a Washington pizzeria by attaching a warning to those searching for the topic on its site, there’s a surprising place where Pizzagate is booming. Nearly four years after it began, the conspiracy theory is popping up all over the place on the short-form video app and Gen Z hangout spot TikTok.
Pizzagate has become massive on TikTok, reaching plenty of young people right as the reality around them—thanks to the pandemic, police violence and related unrest, and a new Netflix documentary highlighting Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes—seems more and more unhinged. The #Pizzagate hashtag has earned more than 69 million views on the platform, while related hashtags have earned several millions more...
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carebearglare ago
If you just remove "in the basement of Comet Ping Pong", the entire theory is still on and un-debunked.
Vindicator ago
Yep.
There was quite a bit of digging into the evidence of tunnels beneath that area of DC (which there are), as well as in many other cities. No one ever found evidence of a connection to Comet, though.
carebearglare ago
It wasn't needed. The pizza place should have been raided based on the one photo of a transvestite in the main area covered head to toe in what appears to be blood. As a health violation at the very least.