Happy to explain. I’m a journalism prof interested in, among other things, misinformation. On July 11, I was running a program to monitor a fake news site to see if I could figure out what was responsible for spreading its falsehoods. In this particular case, you were. 1/

— Charles Seife (@cgseife) November 2, 2018

The dots represent accounts spreading the lie. The curves connecting the dots are conduits of this misinformation, when it’s traceable back to a source thanks to a RT. And as you can tell, you’re the main conduit here. 3/

— Charles Seife (@cgseife) November 2, 2018

So… tl;dr version: in the land of the BS artists, you’re a star. Congrats! 5/5

— Charles Seife (@cgseife) November 2, 2018