„...getting called a pedophile constantly...“ Why?
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As to what #pizzagate is, it's largely buried in searches now but this is a good intro:
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http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/pizzagate-4chan-un...
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Basically, some people found some really weird and creepy photos and weird emails in the Podesta dump and started digging. Things have kind of snowballed from there.
Feel free to go back to the Podesta dump on Wikileaks and look things up for yourself. Just start searching for mentions of "pizza." A lot of the things have been taken down now and only exist as archive links, though.
Here is a report from the NY Times (an actual respected organisation) who shows the damage this type of Fake News has:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
It's the actual information that is credible or not, and the NYT hasn't been doing any favours for itself recently on that front.
For those that don't understand what I'm talking about, just look at their response to the pizzagate thing and the response that provoked in turn;
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/801283157244997632
This is not to be taken as an admission that I think the pizzagate stuff is either definitely true or definitely false, merely that their attempt to cover it amounted to "Nothing to see here, please move along" and completely fell flat on its face with actually addressing any of the evidence raised over the course of the affair.