.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 moments right into the United States presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. During that tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are "consuming the dogs, they're consuming the cats, they're consuming the pet dogs of the people who stay there". Mr Muir immediately responded that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were no qualified documents of pet-eating. The past president's claim should have attacked numerous audiences as strange. Yet lots of Mr Trump's fans were actually topped for it: the allegation had been actually moving around in right-wing circles on social networks, improved by Elon Odor, the owner of X. How performed the community become at the centre of a conservative conspiracy concept?