When pizzagate jumped from the dark fringes of the web to an actual neighborhood thick with politics-and-media insiders, it crystallized an unfamiliar new feeling of lawless, irrational menace that ...

the once-pervasive sense of physical danger from extremists like Welch and his fellow believers in the pizzagate conspiracy theory. That marks quite a change. Eight years ago, Welch’s assault ...

The "pizzagate" gunman who fired a rifle inside a restaurant, acting on a fake online conspiracy theory, has died after police shot him following a traffic stop. Edgar Maddison Welch was a ...

(AP) - A man who fired a gun inside a Washington D.C. restaurant, motivated by a fake online conspiracy theory called ...

(AP) - A man who fired a gun inside a Washington D.C. restaurant, motivated by a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” nearly a decade ago, was shot and killed by North Carolina ...