Pizzagate conspiracy theory: a retrospect

[FreethinkingSceptic]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pizzagate-conspiracy/

This is the Snopes article on Pizzagate, which declares it false. Regarding the allegedly disturbing images and posts from the restaurant's Instagram, Snopes states that:

However, the photographs that the Instagram account purportedly hosted were instead, apparently, taken from the pages of various people who "liked" the restaurant's page on Facebook:


The problem with this is that these accounts could have still been people who were connected to James Alefantis and the restaurant. One of the disturbing images is displayed here by Snopes:



Based on the screenshot, it looks like this image was hosted by the "jimmycomet" Instgram account, which responded to the comments with things like "#murder".

If nothing else, this definitely looks creepy and disturbing, and I seriously wonder what the intent of posting things like this was. People have made similar insinuations about photographs of Donald Trump and his daughter being disturbing, so I'd argue that it's a fair observation to make. Example: This photo of Trump and his daughter next to a statue of two owls having sex:

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Pizzagate was a joke.  Epstein had an island, not a pizza restaurant.

[the_antithesis]

Those are parrots, not owls.