How right-wing social media took false claims about Haitians eating pets to the debate
Here's how influencers, monetized accounts and algorithms helped propel false claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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How Trump’s pet-eating claim became a meme for right and left alike
On TikTok and across the internet, a claim pushed by Trump and the right about Haitians eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio has morphed from a potentially vicious anti-immigrant trope into fodder for memes from both left and right.
First Trump said Haitian migrants in Ohio were ‘eating the pets’. Now he says they’re ‘destroying America’
You may never see me again, but that’s okay,’ Trump jokes after saying he’ll visit Springfield, city at center of his false claims that migrants are eating people’s dogs and cats
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Did Trump defame Springfield, Ohio, with baseless claims of migrants eating pets? Experts are torn
Donald Trump and his allies thrust a small Midwestern city into the national spotlight this month with baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating pet cats and dogs.
Trump vows to travel to Springfield following false pet-eating claims
Former President Trump pledged to travel to Springfield, Ohio, after false claims that he and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), have made about Haitian immigrants eating pets in the city. Trump said at a rally in New York on Wednesday that he would go to the town in the next two weeks and also go to Aurora,
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Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas —- after former President Donald Trump and his running mate,
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