The name Lorraine Parsons surfaced earlier today attached to an individual theoretically offered a bribe to provide false testimony against Robert Mueller. We took a look at the early traffic (2298 tweets from 2278 accounts).
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This chart shows the first 20 accounts with tweets containing "Lorraine Parsons". The name appears to have first shown up 20 minutes prior to the first tweet in a Politico article.
The first mention of Lorraine Parsons on Twitter is a reply to @JacobAWohl asking for the name of the woman he offered to pay to accuse Mueller. 10 minutes later, Wohl himself tweets Parsons' name with a claim disputing her existence. Several users speculate that Parsons is Wohl.
Based on the timing, the folks who think Wohl made up Parsons are likely correct. It takes him all of five minutes to go from ignorance of her name to investigating and deciding she isn't real, which is nowhere near enough time to make that determination unless he already knew.
