They did. That's exactly what /r/pizzagate was doing.
The media was the one blasting the pizza parlor nonsense about the basement because it was a convenient strawman to attack because Comet Ping Pong had no basement. That wasn't even the main investigative point of the /r/pizzagate sub.
In fact, the day the sub was shutdown they were crowd-sourcing cross-reference material between the 24,000 names that the hackers uncovered from the pedo network spread across Twitter with the names in the Wikileaks e-mails from John Podesta's account.
There were even a few crossover hits, like the guy with the distillery in Hawaii who was selling "cheese" and other odd items on eBay for $10,000.
They did. That's exactly what /r/pizzagate was doing.
The media was the one blasting the pizza parlor nonsense about the basement because it was a convenient strawman to attack because Comet Ping Pong had no basement. That wasn't even the main investigative point of the /r/pizzagate sub.
In fact, the day the sub was shutdown they were crowd-sourcing cross-reference material between the 24,000 names that the hackers uncovered from the pedo network spread across Twitter with the names in the Wikileaks e-mails from John Podesta's account.
There were even a few crossover hits, like the guy with the distillery in Hawaii who was selling "cheese" and other odd items on eBay for $10,000.