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
On the one hand, I am once again very, very glad that Twitter didn’t exist when I was 20 years old. On the other hand, even then, I had a much better grasp of my own limitations.
Even Jonah ‘Doughy Pantload’ Goldberg got to kick Wohl around — in the National Review, no less!
… It’s like Wohl is in his own Choose Your Own Adventure book, and every direction he goes leads him to a room where he has to punch himself in the crotch, while women he never dated point and laugh. No wonder this guy was Gateway Pundit’s ace reporter…
Stop asking me if @JacobAWohl did the RICO. He didn’t. RICO requires an “enterprise,” which denotes some sort of credible gesture at organization. And “being a dimwitted fuckmuppet dudebrah” is not an enumerated predicate act.
— PickUpTheVoiceMailMomHat (@Popehat) November 4, 2018
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