He Wanted to Save Children. Instead, He Unleashed Chaos.

I profiled (posthumously) Edgar Maddison Welch, the Pizzagate shooter. Been 10 years since the shooting and he’s felt to me like one of the first in a string of online conspiracy meets real world violence events that’s now more a common and a very American tragedy www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

3. He wanted to save children. Instead he unleashed chaos. The American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Holding an assault rifle across his chest, Edgar Maddison Welch walked through the front door of Comet Ping Pong in search of something that didn’t exist, Charlie Warzel writes. Ten years after Pizzagate, Warzel examines the perpetrator’s life: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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@cwarzel.bsky.social on the all-American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch, the man who entered Comet Ping Pong with an assault rifle that day. "The story of Welch, the Pizzagate shooter, as it is often told, is that of a man searching for a revelation that never arrived. But that’s not true."

@cwarzel.bsky.social is one of the best writers out there and this article is no exception. A look at a life broken by internet rumors … www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Sad story of how MAGA lies damage—even destroy—the lives of its followers. And it’s playing out again in this election www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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