The Long, Weird Tale of Comet Ping Pong

And @rossandersen.bsky.social‘s excellent and personal piece on Comet Pizza and the long strange decade they’ve had since the shooting www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Atlantic has published a 3-article series commemorating(?) the 10-year-anniversary of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Thread of links to them: 1. The long weird tale of Comet Ping Pong www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Long, Weird Tale of Comet Ping Pong www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Comet endures. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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And @rossandersen.bsky.social on Comet Ping Pong itself, how the people who work there view that day, the smaller threats that followed, and how they've pushed forward to today. The restaurant turns 20 this year.

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The Long, Weird Tale of Comet Ping Pong: whatever happened to the D.C. pizza place that became a target for the internet’s darkest obsessives? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Ten years after Pizzagate, Comet Ping Pong is still serving pizza and dealing with conspiracy believers. Its staff have endured an armed attack, arson and years of harassment over an entirely invented crime. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Gift article 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Miraculously, no one had gotten hurt, but this conspiracy theory had unleashed real-world forces that were powerful enough to stamp out his little restaurant. Who would want to come eat at a place where another gunman might soon show up?" www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...