Episode 393: 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate - Part 4
A man brought a gun to a pizza restaurant hoping to save kids and found… nothing. Instead, the conspiracy theory that drove him there morphed into something larger, more outrageous, and somehow, even more difficult to debunk. Then came another batch of emails. This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 4.
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