I think the fact that people have been located through even more obscure methods helped spread the lie. Remember when 4chan located a flag via Shia LaBeouf’s twitter and plane contrails. Somebody fucking up infosec with a pizza box is honestly quite believable.
I somehow forgot that him getting pissy at the existence of Greta Thunberg is what gave Romanian cops the data they needed to arrest him.
I wonder how much he seethes at night knowing this fact.
Nope, somebody on Twitter literally just made that part up.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pizza-tate-idUSL1N33O1FH/
Well, TIL. I liked it better when it was a meme and not a serious police investigation that took him down, but it makes sense.
I suspect the reason it spread so easily was that people wanted to believe.
I think the fact that people have been located through even more obscure methods helped spread the lie. Remember when 4chan located a flag via Shia LaBeouf’s twitter and plane contrails. Somebody fucking up infosec with a pizza box is honestly quite believable.