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Starting in September 2024, false claims spread online saying Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. The claims began with a local Facebook group post claiming a local cat had been butchered, and spread quickly among far-right and neo-Nazi groups.
The Springfield, Ohio woman whose social media post was among the first to spread a baseless claim of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating locals’ pets says she’s deeply regretful and never ...
But within days, the claim that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Springfield raced around the world, fueled mainly by right-wing influencers on the social media site X.
One such photo shows a man carrying a dead goose in Columbus. It's being used as proof by right-wing figures falsely claiming that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pets and ...
On Sept. 6, there were 1,100 posts on X mentioning Haitians, migrants or immigrants eating pets, cats, dogs and geese, according to PeakMetrics, a research company. The next day there were 9,100 ...
"I have heard the immigrants-come-to-town-and-eat-pets racist trope ever since I was a child. This is very old racism," Chai posted to the social media site X , formerly Twitter, receiving more ...
During the presidential debate Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump doubled down on the false claim that migrants from Haiti are stealing and eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio. A ...
Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck said there’s no evidence of any cats or other pets being harmed or eaten by the Haitian immigrants. Claims of immigrants eating pets have led to safety ...