Understanding #Pizzagate
On the Media | Dec 9, 2016
Over the past month, the dark corners of the internet have been mobilized to action over "Pizzagate," a conspiracy theory alleging that Hillary Clinton and other Washington elites are involved in a pedophilia ring operating out of a Washington, DC pizza shop. No, it isn't true. But that hasn't stopped self-styled citizen journalists from "investigating" the case, including the North Carolina man who showed up at the shop armed with an AR-15.
Bob speaks with Kim LaCapria, Content Manager at Snopes.com, about debunking the conspiracy. Then, Brooke speaks with Richard Beck, author of We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s, about how Pizzagate resonates with pedophilia scares in the past.
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