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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 don't know what this means, i'm sure it's nothing. >> but it became something big. hundreds of thousands of people watched youtube videos on pizzagate made by alex jones. mike gottlieb is the pizzeria owner's attorney. >> we can trace a meaningful spi...

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. >> that's 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 basement. >> welch is one of those people who believed the false claim. on december 2nd, he sends o...