Dumb online trolls for trump were spreading lies about hatian immigrants in springfield ohio kidnapping and eating dogs. It was one of numerous online hoaxes that have appeared online in years, like when it was posted that Democrats were going to take down the Sam Houston statue years ago. It's intended to get republcans mad and active: when that Sam Houston statue lie happened, it resulted in hundreds of redneck dumbfucks showing up to "protect" the statue armed to the teeth despite no democrat ever making the claim. The way it works is russian bots and shit create burner accounts to make up wild stories, push them onto facebook, which causes dumb old republicans to see it getting reposted by their friends and believe it, so they get scared and vote for trump. Then they delete the original post so you can't trace it back, except to a nebulous "they" without concrete details. It's a known method to sew division, the head of the CIA talked about exactly this tactic to the senate in 2018. Except this time, it malfunctioned, and Ted Cruz, supreme idiot, picked it up and re-posted it. Which got it in the eyes of JD Vance, who brought it to trump, where without any investigating or common sense, repeated it on the national stage. And because it was being reposted by these huge politicians, people were able to screen cap the original post before it could get deleted so they could fact check it.
Basically, the people who scream "Fake news" just got caught drinking the most stupid russian propaganda bullshit you can imagine in 4K HD and brought it up themselves unprompted during a segment meant to paint the Democrats as being bad at immigration policy, which completely neutralized their attack. Complete, 1000% self-goal own there.