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"The swat came soon after stalkers had created a bogus Craigslist advert with Mr Tomlinson’s home address bizarrely claiming that he was kidnapping African-American children, and “grinding them down to make pepperoni”.

The twisted claim has echoes of the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory, which claimed that Democratic Party insiders were keeping child sex slaves in a pizza parlour in Washington DC."

Haha what? Why would this make them think about Comet Ping Pong?




Online disinformation, pepperoni, and kids?


Lying to cops to try to get someone murdered isn't online disinformation




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