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The Pizza Gate Conspiracy
A debunked conspiracy theory that emerged during the 2016 US presidential election. The theory states that powerful individuals (particularly Hillary Clinton and other democrat politicians) were holding children captive in a satanic sex-trafficking ring operating out of a D.C. Pizza restaurant. The theory gained enough traction that one individual was arrested for firing shots into the pizza restaurant.
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