.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words "Springfield" thirty three mins in to the United States presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are actually "eating the dogs, they are actually consuming the pet cats, they are actually consuming the dogs of people that reside there". Mr Muir quickly responded that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no reputable records of pet-eating. The past president's claim must possess struck a lot of visitors as peculiar. But bunches of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were keyed for it: the claims had been actually moving around in right-wing groups on social media, increased through Elon Odor, the owner of X. How did the community become at the center of a conservative conspiracy idea?