Daily Beast: TikTok teens obsessed with Pizzagate, with the conspiracy theory racking up nearly 70 million views on the app ( pizzagate )

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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...

Yes, I'm enjoying some popcorn right now. :-)

▼ carebearglare

If you just remove "in the basement of Comet Ping Pong", the entire theory is still on and un-debunked.

▼ Vindicator

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

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.

▼ Wise2TheLies

No, it hasn't been discredited. Lying propaganda trash.

▼ Vindicator

Indeed.

▼ Call_Of_Goat

Herrer commmmme. Grid failure bychi na or war with russia

What's a jew to do

▼ millennial_vulcan

Scarfing popcorn too!

This is so great. I’m on celebrity deathwatch standby! Joel Schumacher, Bing and PRAYING for Dershowitz next. Good things come in 3s!

▼ darkknight111

https://mobile.twitter.com/ReneeMetcalf13/status/1275548964452999168

Gonna take the odd bet and say maybe Henry Winkler is #3.

After that one tweet ripping on Trump, he’s been getting LOTS of heat lately.

If Winkler goes down, I suspect he’ll rat out the other people who were involved.

▼ tech-adm

There's a reason for that....It's kind of hard to ignore the symbolism. It's too spot-on, too on the nose. Mainstream press ignores it of course.

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▼ Heisenberg123

Will Sommer is disgusting.