US Edition‘Pizzagate’ Is Back: Why Epstein Files Have Fuelled This Conspiracy Theory Again
Social-media users link pizza references in newly released Epstein files to a debunked child-trafficking theory centered on a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, fueling repeated online claims.
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Why the Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory Is Trending As Epstein Files Pizza References Shock Online Sleuths Today
The release of sensitive legal documents often provides clarity, but the latest dump from the US Justice Department has had the opposite effect for a specific corner of the internet. As millions of internal pages regarding the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein went public on 30 January, online sleuths began furiously scanning for keywords.The discovery of the word 'pizza' in the files has breathed new life into a debunked, decade-old narrative, …
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‘Pizzagate’ is back: Why Epstein files have fuelled this conspiracy theory again
The ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory has spurred a flurry of online activity again. The reported mention of ‘pizzas’ in documents released by the US Justice Department related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has fuelled the viral false claims linked to child trafficking
After the publication of millions of new pages by the U.S. Ministry of Justice, the fibrosphere continues to tear up around the Epstein case, which has the ideal profile of conspiracy narratives, analyses researcher Pascal Wagner-Egger, a specialist in the questionThree million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and more than 180,000 images. On Friday, January 30, the U.S. Ministry of Justice announced the publication of a new salve of docu…
The release of the files of the case of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been causing a storm in the public sphere in recent days. A psychologist warns that it is time to step back from technology. After the US Department of Justice released more than three million pages of files from the Epstein case last week, various reactions to this event appeared on the Internet. A psychologist-psychotherapist who consults companies and priv…
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