So far, no one has been killed, but social media crimes are likely ahead by those who would circulate infantile speculation like Mango Mussolini, with the first criminal phase being numerous bomb threats against public facilities in Springfield Ohio.
For example, for the $5,000 bounty, someone might use social media to claim the prize by performing a cruel and heinous act to complete a hoax, because that’s what Republicans do. Because thought crimes and their informers. “Swatting” is also a crime.
Erika Lee said the incident has left her ridden with guilt and anxiety due to the controversy it generated. Her post detailed the disappearance of a neighbor's cat and included her neighbor's suspicions that their Haitian residents were involved in the incident.
According to NewsGuard, an organization dedicated to combating internet misinformation, Lee was one of the first to spread the baseless rumor on social media, the screenshots of which were widely shared. The neighbor, identified as Kimberly Newton, reportedly got the information about the alleged incident from a third party, as per NewsGuard's findings and reported by NBC News.
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The social media user who posted one of the first allegations of Haitian migrants kidnapping and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio said she regrets spreading unfounded claims that shot the small town into the national spotlight. “It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday. She told the outlet “I’m not a racist” before adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. In a since deleted Facebook post, Lee misstated that a neighbor’s cat that went missing was allegedly poached by Haitian neighbors. Her story and additional false claims from other social media users were found not to have any merit. Despite local police and city officials repeatedly saying there is no evidence to support the pet-eating rumors, Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance have trumpeted the baseless allegations. On Thursday, anti-immigrant rhetoric conspiracies led to bomb threats being made “to multiple facilities throughout” in Springfield, reportedly lodged by an individual claiming to be a city resident frustrated by the influx of Haitian immigrants to the area in recent years.
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