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🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, today started yet again with news of bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. |
0:08.0 | Yesterday, two elementary schools and the city hall, and the DMV and the county court facilities had to close because of |
0:15.3 | bomb threats. Today two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school had to |
0:20.9 | close. |
0:22.6 | Yesterday the mayor of Springfield told ABC news that he believes these bomb threats |
0:26.4 | are directly connected to the baseless rumors spread online in the wake of viral social media posts claiming Haitian migrants |
0:35.4 | were abducting people's pets in Springfield in order to eat them. I should note |
0:41.0 | that the claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield are lies. |
0:45.7 | There is no evidence to back up any of those claims, but that does not seem to matter. |
0:52.0 | Here's the thing, a week ago today, on all of Twitter, there were only about |
0:56.6 | 1,000 posts mentioning Haitians, migrants, or immigrants eating animals. |
1:03.0 | Twitter is a very big place, |
1:04.4 | so this was truly a fringe conspiracy theory. |
1:08.2 | But during the presidential debate on Tuesday night, |
1:10.4 | Trump used his microphone to bring that conspiracy theory to the 67 million |
1:15.5 | people watching live. And now kids are being pulled from elementary school |
1:21.7 | classrooms and canine units are sweeping the city's |
1:25.0 | buildings from bombs and right-wing influencers from all over the country have descended on Springfield to quote unquote report on this |
1:35.8 | completely fabricated lie. Now you may be wondering how did this |
1:40.8 | particular conspiracy theory get to Donald Trump in the first place? |
1:45.0 | As it turns out, it's actually really hard to say, |
1:49.0 | because Trump has surrounded himself with so many toxic, fringy advisors that the pool of |
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