Social Media Posts Dredge Up Baseless ‘Child Trafficking’ Conspiracy Theory
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Social media posts are once again making false and baseless claims about high-profile Democrats being involved in child trafficking and sex crimes.
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It’s hard not to overstate this simple fact: There is not and has never been any evidence that the “Clintons, the Obamas & the Biden family are all involved in child trafficking & crimes against children.”
But that’s what a Facebook post falsely claims — one of many posts that revive the long-debunked pizzagate conspiracy theory, which spread the fiction that prominent Democrats, including Hillary and Bill Clinton, were running a child sex-trafficking ring in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizzeria.
, who got four years in prison after going to “Welch was motivated, at least in part, by unfounded rumors concerning a child sex-trafficking ring that supposedly was being perpetrated at the establishment,” announcing his sentence.
