On Pizzagate News Today

D.c. pizzeria. the false claim had been simmering on sites like 4chan and reddit for weeks. when did you first hear of pizzagate? >> it started on november 14th. >> the pizza restaurant owner is unaware of what is brewing. >> i got a call from a reporter if i had heard of this online conspiracy theory that involved comet. and i sort of thought, i dont know what this means, im sure its nothing. >> but it became something big. hundreds of thousands of people watched youtube videos on pizzagate mad...

Thing to a mainstream thing when infowars started covering it in december. >> pizzagate or related hashtags were shared more than a million times on twitter in just five weeks. >> thats all going on and then all of a sudden -- >> soon the pizzeria owner was faced with a frightening reality. thousands of people online believed the false claims. >> they were calling me a pedophile, calling hillary clinton a pedophile, then more outrageous things, calling us satanic, thinking we had tunnels in our ...