How an Internet conspiracy theory led a gunman into a DC pizza parlor
Media Watch,Fake News,Pizzagate,Media Bias
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman may have lost his handkerchief on Martha’s Vineyard one day in September 2014 – and two years later that incident has spawned a convoluted conspiracy theory involving a supposed pedophilia ring run out of a Washington, D.C., pizza joint.
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