Fake News Attacks Washington, D.C. Business

A story (completely false) that started on Reddit and Facebook asserted that a family-friendly pizza restaurant was the home base of a child sex abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta.

According to the New York Times, which broke the story, Twitter accounts, including the Twitter account of Breitbart News, spread the false accusations, and 4Chan users added the suggestion (completely unfounded) that the restaurant was part of a Democratic child trafficking ring.

Politifact investigated the claims and found that the conspiracy theory presented without documentation or named sources "fails to rise above rumor or hoax." Nevertheless, the false news has received hundreds of thousands of views, outraged comments from believers have been shared, and the owner of the restaurant has received hundreds of death threats.

The Snopes article linked below has a rundown of how the story spread far and wide with no fact behind it, and how unrelated information was used to make it seem real, and that there was a widespread conspiracy to cover it up.
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Pizzeria-Owner-Receiving-Death-Threats-After-Conspiracy-Theory-Circulates-402484555.html
​www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/

I went to the Wikileaks website and searched for the name of the restaurant targeted. John Podesta attended a fundraiser there. This is the only reference to the location, and seems to be the impetus for the targeted attack against the restaurant, Clinton, Podesta, and the Democratic Party.

You can do your own search at the Wikileaks website. Disclaimer: These emails were illegally hacked, possibly by a hostile foreign government.
wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8981