[ExI] Russians bots at work again?

[SR Ballard]

Conspiracies never die. It might be bots but also conspiracies do this by themselves anyways.

SR Ballard

> On Jun 27, 2020, at 9:16 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> PizzaGate is back and has almost reached the Intensity levels it had during the last presidential election. In 2016 a conspiracy theory with started that said Hillary Clinton was a head of a child sex molestation ring headquartered in the basement of a pizza restaurant in Washington DC; one nut case enter the restaurant with an assault rifle and demanded to be taken to the basement so he could confront Hillary. The restaurant has no basement. The conspiracy theory has mutated and so today Hillary has retired and the child sex slave ring is now ruled by an evil cabal consisting of Bill Gates, Ellen DeGeneres, and Oprah Winfrey; but it's still run out of the nonexistent basement of that pizza restaurant. In the first week of June PizzaGate got 800,000 likes on Facebook and 600,000 on Instagram. On TikTok posts with the #PizzaGate hashtag have been viewed more than 82 million times, and Google searches for PizzaGate have increased enormously.
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> Weekly Google search popularity for ‘PizzaGate’
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> John K Clark
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