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Claim: Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was suspended from Twitter after sending messages about Pizzagate.

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Origin:On 20 December 2016, several social media users claimed that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was suspended from Twitter. The rumor is based on the suspension of @RudolphGiuliani, a Twitter account that frequently posted about #Pizzagate, a baseless (but complicated) conspiracy theory about a massive pedophilia ring was being run out a Washington, D.C. pizzeria.

Shortly before this account was suspended on 20 December 2016, it published an image purporting to be an "official statement" from Giuliani about the conspiracy theory:


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