"In less than a week, a series of social-media posts from J. D. Vance and MAGA supporters and a debate-stage remark from Donald Trump have escalated into bomb threats and school evacuations."

~ Isabel Fattal

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/14

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/09/the-springfield-effect/679885/

"Yesterday, Springfield’s mayor, Rob Rue, reported that the city had received multiple bomb threats via email, consisting of 'hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians'; the threats prompted the evacuation of Springfield City Hall, two schools, and a local Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles facility. Today, a second wave of threats led to the evacuation of multiple city buildings and two elementary schools."

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/15

"Erika Lee, a woman from Springfield, Ohio, who initially made a Facebook post alleging that local Haitian immigrants were 'eating pets,' leading to significant national attention on the small city, has confessed she had no direct evidence supporting such a claim."

~ Gabe Whisnant

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/17

https://www.newsweek.com/springfield-woman-erika-lee-haitians-eating-pets-rumor-speaks-out-1953851

Erika Lee says she heard the baseless rumor from a friend of her daughter, who heard it from an “acquaintance of a friend," all of whom say they have no proof of the toxic lie they have spread, endangering local Haitian residents.

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"A former president of the United States, running again for an office commonly referred to as 'Leader of the free world,' is leading a campaign of stochastic terrorism against Haitian immigrants that echoes the dehumanization tactics of Nazi Germany, the latest in his decade-long effort to gain unchecked power by stoking hatred and division and causing chaos and violence."

~ Jamison Foser

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/19

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/how-the-news-media-privileges-dangerous

"Americans have already suffered and died as a result of his words and actions — and that’s exactly what he wants.

That’s the story the news media should be telling readers and viewers."

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/20

"Instead, even as they debunk lies from Donald Trump and JD Vance about Haitian immigrants, journalists are privileging those same lies by framing their coverage as an assessment and explanation of what Trump and Vance are saying rather than an assessment of what it says about their character that they are telling such hateful and dangerous lies."

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