Media Matters reports:
Far-right online figures are spreading a conspiracy theory claiming the e-commerce platform Etsy is hosting a child trafficking market — reminiscent of the baseless claim that targeted the online furniture and home goods retailer Wayfair in 2020.
Some far-right figures are even calling Etsy “the new Wayfair,” as the conspiracy theory spread across X, far-right message boards and right-wing platforms, and more mainstream platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, and Meta’s platforms, apparently earning millions of views.
On December 10, a QAnon-promoting account on X, @NiQole1776, posted that it had discovered pizza-related products selling on Etsy for thousands of dollars, and the account suggested that these products were suspicious, writing, “Don’t let them gaslight you anymore.”
QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin [photo above] questioned on X if “CHILD TRAFFICKING” is “TAKING PLACE ON ETSY” because “there are a lot of suspicious listings on Etsy” involving pizza “that have people wondering if child porn or children are for sale for sex on the e-commerce site.”
Read the full article. There’s much more, including screenshots of the batshittery. As you may recall, in 2020 QAnon nutbags accused Wayfair of shipping live children inside of cabinets. Their proof? Some Wayfair models bore female names that matched the first names of missing children. Wayfair ended up renaming the cabinets. Liz Crokin had been banned by Twitter but last year she was reinstated by Elon Musk.
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Far-right online figures are spreading a baseless conspiracy theory claiming e-commerce platform Etsy is hosting a child trafficking market, calling it “the new Wayfair.” QAnon accounts have played a major role spreading the claim.https://t.co/VDMs5dUqDK
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) December 13, 2023
Fanatical QAnon conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin spoke at an event at Mar-a-Lago last night. After she spoke, Trump made a surprise appearance at the event. pic.twitter.com/03xuzWKyC2
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 7, 2022
QAnon Claim: Boebert’s Date Was “Paid To Set Her Up” https://t.co/u4SDgYZbRO pic.twitter.com/N2VJ9dBAbe
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 18, 2023
PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Liz Crokin claims Tom Hanks is a pedophile who made a move about shoes made out of baby skin. Liz Crokin reveals that Rachel Maddow’s medical boot is hiding an ankle monitor. Liz Crokin declares the 2020 Democratic primary to be “moot” because all the candidates will be in prison for sex crimes. Liz Crokin predicts that the college admissions scandal will prove that Hollywood celebrities “eat babies.” Crokin claims Trump purposely misspelled “hamburger” to mock Obama and his “Satanist pals.” Crokin claims Hollywood celebrities set California’s wildfires to cover up evidence of their pedophilia. Crokin claims California mudslides were God’s punishment to Oprah for being anti-Trump. Crokin claims that all of Trump’s “loudest critics” are involved in pedophilia and that one-third of all elected officials are “Satanic cannibals” who “drink the blood of children.” Crokin declares that she knows Jesus Christ is real because demons gave her dog bloody diarrhea. Crokin made national headlines in 2018 when she accused model Chrissy Teigen and her husband, pop star John Legend, of being involved in pedophilia.