Robbie Williams’ latest comments on the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory have caused consternation online. The bizarre theory, which gained traction online during the 2016 US presidential election, claims that high-ranking members of the Democratic Party were involved in a human trafficking ring linked to a pizza restaurant in Washington DC.
It came to prominence on websites including 4chan, a largely unregulated forum, after the emails of John Podesta, the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, were hacked and later shared on WikiLeaks.
Pizzagate conspiracy theorists wrongly claimed that the emails contained coded messages linked to the alleged trafficking ring.The conspiracy has been debunked by a range of news outlets including the.
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