.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered words "Springfield" 33 mins into the American presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. During that little Ohio town, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are "eating the pet dogs, they are actually consuming the pussy-cats, they are actually consuming the animals of individuals who stay there". Mr Muir promptly answered that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were no dependable reports of pet-eating. The past president's insurance claim have to have struck many audiences as strange. But lots of Mr Trump's fans were actually topped for it: the claims had been actually moving around in right-wing circles on social networks, boosted through Elon Odor, the manager of X. Exactly how performed the city happened at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?