| > The Migrants eating Cats story for example — the national networks ran statements from certain local officials but didn’t actually go there and interview or investigate directly. This is just trivially debunkable. Video evidence to the contrary - with CNN reporters wandering through town, interviewing locals - takes seconds to Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWHDF-2FlI Here's PBS doing the same - drone shots, interviews in local churches, talking to Haitian families in the area, for a detailed ~9 minute segment: https://www.pbs.org/video/ohio-city-with-haitian-migrant-inf... It got more investigating than the wild, baseless claim deserved, if anything. Especially considering the person who started it recanted. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfi... > 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. |