restaurants with an alleged human trafficking and child sex ring. Proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory falsely claimed the emails contained coded messages that connected several high-ranking Democratic Party officials and U.S. WikiLeaks published his emails in November 2016.

In March 2016, the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, was hacked in a spear-phishing attack. It has been extensively discredited by a wide range of organizations, including the Washington, D.C. ' Pizzagate' is a debunked conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle. Proponents of Pizzagate connected Comet Ping Pong (pictured) to a fictitious child sex ring