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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio —The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.

“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.

Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.

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[-] matengor@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago

To be honest, although it was dumb, it was also unfortunate. There is no way we will get a hold on viral fake news because there will always be that one unlucky or stupid bastard posting something silly.

Don't eat the pets, people!

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

the guy that started the couch memes:

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

At least couches don't have families.

Or DO THEY!?

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago
[-] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 5 days ago

And you can even feed them a vegan diet.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

I don’t think cows’ digestive systems can handle vegans 🫢

[-] noseatbelt@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

What is even the point of having four stomachs then?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Don't you start.

[-] Spitzspot 6 points 5 days ago

Jersey cows are adorable and make great pets.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Apart. I'm guessing, from the massive poos.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

Well, everything poos,

and massive is relative.

You should see my poos!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, but I assume your poos go in a toilet and not on the ground.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

You’ve never truly pooped until you pop a squat in your back yard.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'll take your word for it. I clean up enough dog poo out there as it is. And it's much smaller than cow poo. Generally not as soft too.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

Cow poo is good fertilizer though. You’d have a beautiful garden.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

You're really not convincing me to have a pet cow here...

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

I wouldn’t recommend fertilizing your garden with your own poo!!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Having no garden, I'm not fertilizing it with anything's poo.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

I think you would love a garden.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I think I have a black thumb.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

… where are you putting your thumb?

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