The media sure seems to be trying hard to run cover for the wayfair thing.
Unfounded conspiracy theory accuses Wayfair of bonkers, Pizzagate-level trafficking ring
It wasn't totally odd, at face value, that furniture site Wayfair was trending on Twitter on Friday. Maybe the retailer was having a giant sale?
Unfortunately, Wayfair elbowed its way into the trending column with tens of thousands of tweets because of a much stranger situation.
It boils down to this: Conspiracy theorists were purporting that the site — or third-party sellers on the site — were secretly part of a child trafficking ring. This theory appears to have started, as many do, on Reddit's r/conspiracy subreddit.
Before we proceed, there is no hard evidence to support that this far-fetched theory is even remotely true. Also, child trafficking is a horrific crime and conspiracy theories like this one turn a dangerous issue into a joke, distracting from the real reasons child trafficking flourishes.
It all started when a user posted a screenshot of high-priced cabinets listed on Wayfair's site on Thursday, noting that the names of some of the cabinets were the same as the names of missing children. (We're not adding too much detail on the children's names in this post out of respect for families with missing kids.)
https://mashable.com/article/wayfair-child-conspiracy-theory-explained/