Project Veritas released a video purporting to show that Beto O'Rourke is "funding the caravan". In reality, his staff made a $300 charitable donation to asylum seekers already in the country, but @JamesOKeefeIII isn't one to let facts disrupt his agenda.
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We downloaded tweets containing "Beto" and "caravan", yielding 161881 tweets from 68402 accounts. The inaccurate nature of the story hasn't stopped it from spreading like wildfire among those who are inclined to believe it. 
Here are the first twenty accounts with on-topic tweets containing "Beto" and "caravan". @JamesOKeefe's tweet announcing the upcoming "expose" is the one that kicked off the trend.
Retweet network for tweets containing "Beto" and "caravan". @JamesOKeefe is the largest node, but @seanhannity, @tedcruz, and others jumped on the bandwagon. Amusing, @JacobAWohl seems to have decided to hitch his star to a better-crafted lie following his own recent failure.
Here are the media sources most frequently linked from tweets containing "Beto" and "caravan". All are right-wing and conspiracy oriented; so far the more mainstream conservative sources such as Fox and Breitbart haven't touched this one.
