Alex Jones apologized for stoking the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, but all these protesters don't care

Conspiracy theory peddling InfoWars host Alex Jones apologized on Friday for spreading the unfounded conspiracy theory that a D.C. pizza restaurant was at the center of a child sex-abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton.

But outside the White House on Saturday, the theoretical audience for InfoWars and all matters of PizzaGate conspiracy news didn't seem to care much. A small group of protesters who believe that the White House must investigate claims of sex trafficking at a local pizza place gathered to convince people that the issue is real.

As The Hill editor Will Sommer pointed out on Twitter, many of the protesters had their hearts in the right place: stopping child sex trafficking. They were just badly misinformed, thanks to conspiracy theorists like Jones.

That same viewpoint led a man to fire an assault rifle at the pizza place in question in December.

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As one family's t-shirts said, they wanted to convince everyone that "Pizzagate is not fake news"—even though, well, Pizzagate is the literal definition of fake news.

The protest was organized by "buzz expert" David Seaman, who has a confusing self-promotional history that suggests he might not believe in everything he's saying. It ended up with mixed messages, incorporating some advocacy about missing girls in D.C., unrelated to the initial child sex trafficking claims.

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In his video apology, Jones said that he "relied on third-party accounts of alleged activities and conduct at the restaurant" when he made claims about sex trafficking in D.C.

The apology just made some Pizzagate protesters believe that Jones had been corrupted by the rest of the media, which refuses to "believe" in Pizzagate.

Because, just to be clear, for the umpteenth time: Pizzagate didn't happen.