7. Pizzagate and the Birth of QAnon
What started with leaked campaign emails in 2016 spiraled into one of the strangest conspiracies in modern history. Some claimed references to pizza in John Podesta’s emails were actually coded messages about child trafficking at a Washington, D.C., pizzeria. The baseless theory—dubbed Pizzagate—led one man to storm the restaurant with a rifle. Though debunked, it laid the groundwork for QAnon, a sprawling conspiracy involving satanic elites, child exploitation, and Donald Trump as the chosen savior.
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