.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word “Springfield” thirty three mins right into the American presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. Because tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are “eating the canines, they are actually consuming the cats, they’re consuming the household pets of individuals that live there”. Mr Muir immediately answered that, according to Springfield’s mayor, there were no trustworthy documents of pet-eating.
The past president’s case need to have hit lots of viewers as bizarre. Yet bunches of Mr Trump’s enthusiasts were actually topped for it: the allegation had been actually moving around in right-wing groups on social networks, boosted by Elon Musk, the manager of X. How performed the community become at the center of a conservative conspiracy idea?