what is pizza gate

Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory that emerged during the 2016 United States presidential election. It falsely claimed that a pedophilia ring linked to members of the Democratic Party was being run out of the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. The theory led to a man firing a rifle inside the restaurant. The New York Times, Time, and other sources have debunked the theory, and it has been described as "fictitious" by D.C. police investigators. The theory has been spread on social media platforms and was popular among some supporters of Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. Elon Musk and others have recently boosted the conspiracy theory, despite it having been widely discredited