Overview
- On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Hillary Clinton told Kara Swisher that the Pizzagate conspiracy was “really effective” at influencing voters during her 2016 run.
- Clinton said campaign staffers heard voters repeat baseless claims they had seen online, including accusations that she killed people or trafficked children, which made canvassing and persuasion harder.
- She singled out Facebook as the platform that most amplified ads, memes and false claims, and said some of the viral content had links to Russian funding.
- Clinton described her 2016 team as “frankly ill-prepared” for the scale of online lies and urged vigilance because the same paid disinformation tactics can be used against candidates now.
- Reporting on Pizzagate’s real-world harm remains central to the account: the false theory pushed into the physical world in 2016 when Edgar Maddison Welch fired a gun inside Comet Ping Pong and was later sentenced to prison.