For those following the Pizzagate scandal it has been a fascinating few days. On Sunday, 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch walked into Comet Ping Pong pizza with an assault rifle and fired a shot into the floor. For around six weeks, the mainstream media has ignored Pizzagate even though Pizzagate has trended across social media for all of that time. The few media outlets who had covered Pizzagate dismissed it as lunacy. The BBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times all ran editorial pieces dismissing Pizzagate but most simply ignored it.
Suddenly, after this incident, the media world is in a feeding frenzy over Pizzagate. Numerous outlets across the world are suddenly running Pizzagate stories, and their conclusions seem to be unanimous. Pizzagate is fake news. Vox claims that Pizzagate is the work of "alt-right trolls, Trump supporters and white supremacists."
Admittedly, Vox does mention the Podesta emails, but there is absolutely no attempt to explain the language used therein. Nor do they acknowledge that the original allegations that led to Pizzagate were made by WikiLeaks, not on the Pizzagate Reddit or Voat platforms.
Craig Silverman at Buzzfeed calls Pizzagate both "bizarre" and "unhinged" and claims that the whole thing was kicked off by "a white supremacist posing as a Jewish lawyer."