Annotated Bibliography
English 101
3 November 2022
Pizzagate- An annotated Bibliography
Horton, Adrian. “After Truth: How Ordinary People Are ‘Radicalized’ by Fake News.” The Guardian,2020:https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/19/after-truth-hbo-fake-news-pizzagate-documentary.
The details in the article talk about the disinformation in Pizzagate that led to Russian intervention. The author includes a discussion focusing on the experience of the pizzeria owner receiving calls from reporters about child abuse going on on the enterprise premises. The exposition of the story follows a key reality that saw the investigation of how the public was being misled and the propaganda growth on Twitter targeting Clinton. The writer presented insight into the progression of fake news and the impact it created by radicalizing the public into believing the social media conspiracy information. The termination of misinformation was handled with CNN real reporters and government investigations to warn Reddit and other conspiracy sites.
Kang , Cecilia, and Sheera Frenkel. ‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era, 2020,: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html.
The authors focus on Pizza gate’s example of conspiracy theory in the past to take a new route in Tiktok. By engaging the social entertainment sites like Tiktok that were in their early days of development, the conspiracy theory adjustments to fit in modern times identified including the use of memes. The resurgence of the fake news tactic confirmed the determination of the Qanon group conspiracy.
Lopez, German. “Pizzagate, the Fake News Conspiracy Theory That Led a Gunman to DC’s Comet Ping Pong, Explained.” Vox, 2016, :https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/5/13842258/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-fake-news.
The content involves an event that transpired after the conspiracy on Pizza gate spread on Twitter and Facebook. The author utilizes the evidence of the gunman getting into the building and firing shots on claims of an ongoing child assault activity in the ping pong pizza gate area. The discussion on the progress and actual actions in the pizza gate incidents included proliferated political conspiracy on social media that led to the use of guns. In the context of political issues, the article gathers information on where the feud started a few days before the election involving Hillary Clinton and John Podesta was claimed wrongly. The article confined information on the FBI working hard to unveil the white supremacist from Trump supporters that involved conspiracy theories after the shooting.
Metaxas, Panagiotis, and Samantha Finn. “Investigating the Infamous #Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory.” Technology Science, 2019, :https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs230/project/The_infamous_Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory.pdf.
The article content examined the investigation of the Pizza gate conspiracy theory by finding social media use as a suitable media for the events. The observation of Twitter provided information about the topic and confirmed unprovable highlights of the story to confirm the conspiracy application. As the authors described the investigation, it worked credibly to unveil the eternal misleading facts of the victims and criminals that were hard to verify.
Miller, Michael E. “Pizzagate’s Violent Legacy.” The Washington , 2021, :https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/02/16/pizzagate-qanon-capitol-attack/.
The content unveils the violent legacy of a man who drove 350 miles from South Carolina to defend the life of young children as claimed through conspiracy. The story involves the recurrence of a relatable incident where after elections, the same Trump supporters that led to the shooting at Comet Ping Pong stormed Capital Hall to demand Trump become the president. The informative capital provides a violent legacy of a political conspiracy that was pursued through fake news leading to harm and death in the 2016 presidential elections.
MUKERJI, NIKIL. “What Is Fake News?” JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, vol. 5, no. 35, 2018, pp. 1–24., :https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/what-is-fake-news.pdf?c=ergo;idno=12405314.0005.035;format=pdf.
The article brings together various cases with the aim to expose fake news and what accompanies its creation and features. Among the four cases involved included Pizza gate fake news giving insight into the intuition used to bring forth a fabricated story that looked real. The adoption of the conspiracy theory in Pizza gate fake news was accompanied by convincing evidence of emails and Instagram cooperation between Clinton and the Comet Ping Pong owner.
Pyrhönen, Niko, and Gwenaëlle Bauvois. “Conspiracies beyond Fake News. Producing Reinformation on Presidential Elections in the Transnational Hybrid Media System.” Sociological Inquiry, vol. 90, no. 4, 2019, pp. 705–731. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336896787_Conspiracies_beyond_Fake_News_Produsing_Reinformation_on_Presidential_Elections_in_the_Transnational_Hybrid_Media_System
The discussion involves exploring conspiracies beyond the fake news scandals that emerge at selective times like the election timing incidents of Pizza gate misinformation. The authors bring into exposition beyond the fake news target to deeper meaning and implications to expose political elites, especially in two opposing sides of political contests. The scenario of conspiracy theory in action was analyzed using the political predictions by the people and their will to expose any leader who appears in propaganda spread stories as happened in Pizza gate, and Fraud voter incidents in French and American land. The article utilized the properly laid down strategy in a conspiracy not only for fake formation spread but with an information intention to build a constructed believable story as it happened in the Pizza gate scandal
ROBB, AMANDA. “Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal.” Rolling Stone, 2017, :https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/.
The discussion focused on a Twitter bot from Russian operators during Trump’s campaigns in 2016 to explain fake news anatomy. The author explores the development of the conspiracy using a great democrat politician Hilla Clinton to convince the public. The resulting events after Alex Jones craftily developed and pushed the sex ring abuse among kids overcame Welch to react by being violent showing the power of conspiracy.
Sebastian, Michael, and Gabrielle Bruney. Years After Being Debunked, Interest in Pizzagate Is Rising—Again, 2020, :https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a51268/what-is-pizzagate/.
The content reports rising interest in the Pizza gate conspiracy case. By involving Justin Bieber’s question to fans if he ever experienced the child trafficking incidents in Pizza gate new interests emerged when he adjusted his bennie. The massive comments on social media awakened the Pizza gate conspiracy incident yet again bringing attention to the impact the event created.
Wendling, Mike. “The Saga of ‘Pizzagate’: The Fake Story That Shows How Conspiracy Theories Spread.” BBC News, 2016, :https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985.
The article discussion focused on ways in which conspiracy theories spread. In the introduction to the fake story unveiling, the article author explained how although no victim of the child abuse claims had been found proving the information as misleading. Relying on different perspectives of the unfolding conspiracy story, the content engaged how the conspiracy developers used the Comet Ping Pong owner who was a supporter of democrats to falsely accuse Clinton and the campaign manager of child abuse actions in the pizzeria hotel. Among the methods adopted to convince the social media users included sharing the content and making as many attractive article titles on the matter as possible to buy readers to support Donald Trump’s side against the democrats. Thus, the information initially starting from 4chan got into mainstream media immensely misleading users and readers.