For the uninitiated, an Anon who claimed to be in the FBI showed up on Reddit and furnished the entire Pizzagate scandal as it's come to be known. Basically, almost everyone this guy said about Hillary Clinton and her campaign at the time has come to pass, and he urged anons and redditors to take their shovels to the Clinton Foundation, because there was something huge to be found there. Suffice to say, the Internet Autism Machine fired itself up and began to dig through the Podesta emails. In them, the guy was absolutely obsessed with Pizza, which is kind of a bizarre thing to see for someone with a personal chef and the money needed to dine on fine food whenever he wants, and the conversations about pizza, moreover, made no sense. So one day 4chan lets /pol/'s crazies take a crack at it, the autists fill in the blanks, and suddenly they realize that the entire thing was a child porn ring.
The digging then began in earnest, and people found
countless connections between known pedophile, and examples of bribery and extortion going on tied to the Clinton Foundation. For example, one of the more prolific pedophiles found in the links allegedly took over 20 unescorted trips to a pedophile "sex island." Said individual also set up rape parties for rich patrons - the infamous "Spirit cooking."
The shit they have is completely bonkers, but at once hilariously entertaining, and if we've learned nothing else from the last three years it's that sometimes, rarely, /pol/ is right. So while it's very likely that these two events are completely separate, the most likely reason that the pedophiles on Twitter were outed because of the /pol/tards' investigations into Pizzagate. I put a lot less stock in /r/conspiracy, who seems to believe that your money can be made instantly worthless due to RFID powder, or even made to explode so it kills you.
The main reason people think Pizzagate may be legitimate is because... Well, we've already seen shit just like it - notably
Rotherham, where thousands of children got raped over several years by migrants and didn't face any actual repercussions for it (because racism). We also saw the same thing
in Columbus, and this happened less than a month ago. So it's not like this is the usual garden-variety level of /pol/ conspitardery. This has some grounds in common-sense, which is, frankly, horrifying.