D.C. police detained a gunman Sunday at Comet Ping Pong, a popular pizzeria that has been the subject of a fake news story about a child sex ring. An entire D.C. neighborhood was on lockdown Sunday because some dope with a gun believed a fake news story that wildly and wrongly linked a neighborhood pizzeria to a child sex ring. [N.C. man told police he went to D.C. pizzeria to investigate conspiracy theory]The exterior of Comet Ping Pong, where a gunman showed up to “self-investigate” a fake story about a child sex ring. D.C. police detained a gunman on Dec. 4, who had walked into Comet Ping Pong, a popular Northwest Washington restaurant and music venue. What happened at Comet Ping Pong isn’t the first time we’ve seen real consequences of the doctored-news phenomenon.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2016 17:59 UTC