Officials: Potential for violence from fake news troubling

A fake news story prompted a man to fire a rifle inside a popular Washington, D.C., pizza place as he attempted to "self-investigate" a con... . Meighan Stone places a support banner with flowers outside the door of Comet Ping Pong pizza shop, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016.

Fake news story led gunman to popular DC pizzeria, police say

Edgar Maddison Welch, 28 of Salisbury, N.C., surrenders to police Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Washington. Welch, who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place, fired an assault rifle inside the restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said.

Police: Fake news story led gunman to popular DC pizzeria

A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said. Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police received a call Sunday afternoon about a male with a weapon on Connecticut Avenue, in an affluent neighborhood of the nation's capital.

Armed gunman went to pizzeria to – self-investigate’ an election-related conspiracy theory

A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in northwest Washington, D.C., carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to investigate ''PizzaGate,'' a false conspiracy theory related to Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign.

Reports: Man Who Shot Rifle in DC Eatery Said He Was Investigating ‘Pizza Gate’

A North Carolina man told police Sunday he went to a pizzeria in Washington D.C. with an assault rifle to "self-investigate" conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a sex sting operation from the restaurant, Politico reports . Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, North Carolina, told police that, "During a post-arrest interview this evening, the suspect revealed that he came to the establishment to self-investigate 'Pizza Gate' ," according to The Washington Post.

Gunman went to pizzeria to ‘self-investigate’ an election-related conspiracy theory: police

A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in northwest Washington, D.C., carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to investigate "PizzaGate," a false conspiracy theory related to Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign.

A recount won’t change the election results, but Trump and the…

President-elect Donald Trump amplified conspiracy theories from the far right about widespread illegal voting, and his efforts to re-litigate the election align somewhat with a movement led by the far left. President-elect Donald Trump amplified conspiracy theories from the far right about widespread illegal voting, and his efforts to re-litigate the election align somewhat with a movement led by the far left.

Entrepreneurs and small businesses on why they love – and hate – Obamacare

U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2013 that "consumers, small-business owners, and pharmacists" have benefited from the Affordable Care Act Talk that the Affordable Care Act would decimate small businesses ran rampant when the law was passed, but has it turned out to be true? The health care law has forced some small-business owners to make tough choices, with more expensive coverage requiring them to scale back or even preventing them from providing coverage to employees, they told MarketWatch. But other entrepreneurs say it has done nothing but good, allowing them to start their own businesses, stabilizing the cost of insuring employees, or simply giving them the peace of mind about getting health insurance in the future.

Donald Trump Just Told One Of His Most Brazen Lies Yet

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday made the astonishing claim that "millions of people who voted illegally" contributed to opponent Hillary Clinton 's victory in the popular vote, following a campaign based largely on spreading conspiracy theories and claiming that the election was "rigged" against him. In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally Trump's latest lie seems to have originated from the conservative conspiracy website Infowars, which published an article claiming that Trump actually won the popular vote because "three million votes in the U.S. presidential election were cast by illegal aliens."

Fearing yet another witch hunt, Reddit bans ‘Pizzagate’

Citing its policy against posting the personal information of others, Reddit has banned the "Pizzagate" conspiracy board from the site. Pizzagate, a persistent and popular conspiracy theory that combines the Clinton diaspora with accusations of a secret pedophile ring, has been a steady force in the enclaves of the pro-Donald Trump internet for the past few weeks.

The Trump Conspiracy

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Prestwick airport on November 14, 2014 in Prestwick, Scotland. The story of the US election was portrayed this way: millions of angry and disaffected working class white Americans rose up against the elite to put Donald Trump in the White House.

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Bannon, 62, was taking time off from Breitbart to serve as CEO of the Trump campaign before Sunday's announcement giving him a senior leadership role in the incoming administration. Breitbart has propagated conspiracy theories, like Planned Parenthood having Nazi ties or Clinton aide Huma Abedin being a spy for Saudi Arabia.

‘Why Not Believe Everything?’ Colbert Embraces the Avalanche of Election Conspiracy Theories

Stephen Colbert used his Thursday show to lampoon the great number of false news stories that have pervaded the weirdness of the 2016 election. The Late Show host referenced the WikiLeaks bombshell suggesting that Hillary Clinton 's campaign bought a Trump Tower apartment in order to secretly record the operations inside Donald Trump 's Campaign HQ.

Claims of election fraud resonate with growing audience

Outraged claims of voting fraud are no longer only a regular part of elections in unsteady, young democracies - they're increasingly being made in established democratic countries by populist politicians who question the fairness of the voting process - and with it the validity of representation by and for the people. At the final debate of the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump refused to commit to honour the result of the Nov. 8 vote.

Obama: Hillary email scheme ‘an honest mistake’

The President of the United States characterized his Secretary of State's deliberate decision to keep all of her official government business on an unauthorized, unsecured, non-governmental home-brew email server that left top secret information vulnerable to hostile foreign nations as "an honest mistake." In an interview with NowThisNews that Allahpundit focused on Wednesday , Obama showed that he is clearly more interested in securing his legacy by keeping Donald Trump out of the White House than he was about the protocols of our basic federal document procedures or the security of state secrets under our nation's espionage laws: "Obviously, it's become a political controversy.

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