
Season 06 Episode 28 Extra: The Tail of the Comet
Unexplained
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Pizzagate Is Real
hashtag Pizzagate appeared for the first time on Twitter three days after James Alephantis was called a paedophile online. This was tweeted thousands of times over the next few days and weeks, most prominently by what were later found to be bots running through servers coming out of the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam. Soon the conspiracy was jumping from online forums to full-scale reports from various citizen journalist organizations like Alex Jones's Infowars which gleefully promoted the story. By then the truth if it had ever mattered at all was completely irrelevant.
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