Tag: QAnon
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Pizzagate and the media: how newsrooms struggled to cover a conspiracy without amplifying it
Pizzagate forced newsrooms to confront a hard question: can you debunk a conspiracy without spreading it further? The lessons shaped later coverage of QAnon and election claims.
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From Pizzagate to QAnon: how one conspiracy theory spawned a movement
QAnon didn’t appear from nowhere. Tracing the direct line from Pizzagate’s 2016 emergence reveals the architecture that turned a debunked rumor into a movement.
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The persistence problem: why Pizzagate refuses to die a decade later
Pizzagate was debunked within weeks but resurfaces every election cycle. Examining why the theory keeps returning despite zero new evidence.