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.
Opinion
Trump, Vance and their 'blood libel' about Haitian immigrants
For most Americans, kidnapping and cooking a family pet would be more shocking than pretty much anything I can imagine. That's why it's a blood libel: a false accusation that tries to make people seem subhuman.
Vance Sticks By Pet-Eating Claims and Says He’s Willing to ‘Create Stories’
Mr. Vance, who amplified false claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, said he was willing “to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention.”
Analysis
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
J.D. Vance offers ‘proof’ of pet-eating, but it’s proven false with 1 phone call
Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has dug in on his claim Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state’s GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of such behavior.
JD Vance's Haitian migrant claims fall apart as supposedly eaten cat returns home
JD Vance recently presented what he said was evidence to prove his claim that immigrants are eating peoples' pets, but it was quickly debunked.
Why have Trump and Vance doubled down on their false narratives about immigrants 'eating pets'?
During the US presidential debate, Donald Trump falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were ‘eating the pets of the people’ who live in Springfield, Ohio.
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