14 August 2018 An animator for the children's cartoon has been sentenced to prison for possessing child pornography, but the case is not part of a "#PedoGate" conspiracy.
11 June 2018 Neither Pizzagate nor a "child trafficking bunker" in Tucson is real or connected to illegal activities supposedly directed by Hillary Clinton.
5 June 2018 Police investigated and concluded the site is actually an abandoned homeless camp.
8 August 2017 Although Trump did mention the word "Pizzagate", he was referring to a non-controversy over a lunch meeting with Sarah Palin, not the pedophile ring conspiracy theory.
7 August 2017 Both pop singers were targeted by fake news stories reporting that they had exposed a pedophile ring in control of the music business.
21 July 2017 A fake news web site claimed the deceased singers from Linkin Park and Soundgarden were murdered because they were about to expose a list of pedophiles.
20 December 2016 The @RudolphGiuliani Twitter account (not affiliated with the former New York City mayor) was suspended after sending messages about the #Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
13 December 2016 A video of a 15-year-old recounting her story of abuse was taken in 1989, and has nothing to do with 2016's "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.
12 December 2016 In a classic conspiracy theory trope, rumormongers "spotted" the Podesta brothers in police sketches linked to the Madeleine McCann case.
21 November 2016 A detailed conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate" holds that a pedophile ring is operating out of a Clinton-linked pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong.
