Rumors of migrants eating pets started Monday in Ohio and spread quickly in X.
Several members of the Republican Party have spread false claims that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating pets in Ohio.
American According to CNN also the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance has spread a claim on social media that turned out to be false.
“Reports show that people who shouldn’t be in this country have been kidnapping and eating pets,” Vance wrote in X on Monday.
Also a Republican senator Ted Cruz on Monday spread false claims about Haitian migrants eating pets.
Cruz shared a photo of cats on his X.
– Vote for Trump so that Haitian immigrants don’t eat us, the text of the picture says.
Also on President Trump’s campaign account X, a post appeared on Monday, according to which Trump would deport immigrants who eat Americans’ pets.
According to CNN, rumors of immigrants eating pets started Monday in a local Facebook group in the city of Springfield and quickly spread on X and conservative media.