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Former President Donald Trump, during Tuesday\u2019s presidential debate<\/a>, pushed the baseless claim about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating dogs and other pets.<\/p>

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“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said during an answer to a question about immigration. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump’s answer was among the most extraordinary of the first 30 minutes of the debate: a former U.S. president spreading an internet rumor \u2014 one labeled by some of his critics as racist \u2014 in front of an audience of millions of Americans. The comment illustrated the rapid spread of misinformation in today’s media ecosystem.<\/p>

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David Muir, the ABC News anchor co-moderating the debate, immediately fact-checked Trump’s claims, saying that the city manager in Springfield, Ohio, told the network there had been no credible reports<\/a> of pets being harmed, injured or abused by people in the city’s immigrant community.<\/p>

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Baseless rumors have spread on social media for days<\/a> claiming that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating pets. Most of the rumors involve Springfield, which has a large number of Haitian immigrants, but police there released a statement Monday knocking down the stories and saying they hadn\u2019t seen any documented examples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community,\u201d the police said in a statement. <\/p>

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