An infamous case of fake news spread on online media platforms generated a crazy conspiracy theory that was very popular on social media outlets across the globe in 2016’s fall in correspondence of American presidential elections and in its aftermath. This case made history with the name of “Pizzagate”. But what is Pizzagate and how did the whole story begin?. To better understand it we have to go back to October 30, 2016, when a Twitter account linked to the white supremacist political area and alt-right party’s blogosphere reported that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had uncovered a pedophilia network linked
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The term Doxxing like many neologisms is a word that has evolved over time, thanks also to the widespread diffusion of the internet and social media. Essentially it means compiling and releasing a dossier of personal information about someone. Doxxing can be considered a type of online harassment (as already mentioned it is thanks to the world wild web that this phenomenon spreads) that involves the discovery of someone’s personal information, such as their real name, address, job or other identifying data. An element that characterizes this phenomenon negatively is that it occurs without the consent of the victim, with the