Q Clearance

"Chelsea this week starts us off with Pizzagate and the grand implications. This leads into Cristina's upcoming knowledge. Did someone say Jeffrey Epstein?"

Presented By: Chelsea
Category: Conspiracy

This is the story of the worst typo in history. In 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager had his email account hacked after receiving a phishing email. He forwarded it to a colleague who replied, "It's legitimate" instead of, "It's not legitimate."

The emails were posted to Wikileaks where they garnered the attention of 4Chan who created conspiracies about a secret child trafficking ring inside the basement of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. Long known as the worst place on the internet (at least without venturing on to the Deep Web), the rumors escaped to the internet at large where people took them at face value to terrible consequences.

On December 4th of that year, a man entered the pizzeria and held it up while he investigated. Shots were fired, though thankfully no one was injured. The man discovered there was no basement and, realizing he'd been duped, surrendered to the police.

Pizzagate is considered instrumental in the election of the 45th president and spawned the QAnon movement, which has overtaken public discourse.

Takeaway: Proofread your emails.

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