.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" thirty three mins right into the American presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that small Ohio community, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal aliens are "consuming the pets, they're consuming the pussy-cats, they are actually eating the pet dogs of people who reside there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no legitimate files of pet-eating. The former head of state's insurance claim must possess attacked lots of audiences as peculiar. But bunches of Mr Trump's followers were actually keyed for it: the accusation had been actually circulating in right-wing groups on social media, boosted by Elon Odor, the proprietor of X. Just how performed the city become at the facility of a conservative conspiracy theory?