The rumor mill about immigrants attacking household pets got its start in thinly sourced anecdotes shared at government meetings and on social media.

"It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen," Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.

Here's how influencers, monetized accounts and algorithms helped propel false claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Donald Trump said he plans to visit two towns that have become flashpoints in the national debate over immigration and the center of unfounded conspiracy theories the former president has promoted about migrants.

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Donald Trump told a boisterous rally Wednesday he will visit the US town beset by racial tensions ever since his campaign began promoting false allegations that immigrants there were eating people's pets.

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.

Former President Trump pledged to travel to Springfield, Ohio, after false claims that he (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,

Former US President Donald Trump has announced that he will visit Springfield, Ohio, which is at the centre of a rumour — widely discredited as baseless — about Haitian immigrants killing and eating local residents' pets.

Mayor Rob Rue worried that a Trump visit would strain the city after a week of threats brought on by Trump lies