Fake stories are a genuine problem on the Internet. The Web has seen a surge in misleading and outright false messaging that threatens to make the truth hard to find. It's also dangerous, and that danger landed at a Washington, D.C., pizza place Sunday night when a North Carolina man fired an assault rifle inside the popular restaurant. He told police he wanted to “self-investigate” a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring there. It was a fake story that became all too real for the patrons of Comet Ping Pong. Thankfully, no one was injured, and Edgar Welch, 28, was arrested and held without bond. "It’s deeply troubling that some of those false reports could lead to violence,” White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday. In another twist, one of the people posting on the conspiracy theory was Michael Flynn Jr., an adviser to his father, Michael Flynn, picked by President-elect Donald Trump to be his national security adviser. Trump’s team had no immediate response Monday about the conspiracy theory.
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