[Thread] 1/ The fake copy and pasted story going round yesterday alleging that the photo of the boy on the Leeds hospital floor was staged has been supplemented by a new fake story. As with before, a former nurse is claiming, as an expert, that the story is clearly fake 
2/ What's interesting about this is the extent to which these accounts are targetting @allisonpearson - the columnist for the @Telegraph who has indulged the sock puppet accounts by seeming open to the idea that the photo was staged. I have done a small visual showing this...
@allisonpearson @Telegraph 3/ In the animation, you can see nodes and edges, at the centre of which is @allisonpearson . The light blue arrows represent people tweeting the lie to Allison. The fact there are so many are because people are retweeting the original line, which then creates notifications
@allisonpearson @Telegraph 4/ for Allison. The original seeder of the fake tweet appears to be @medwar93 - which got 91 retweets. Shrewdly, @NitishRamparsad noticed that Mike had quite the career. Not only being an A and E nurse, but also a 35-year career in supply chains... Hello multi-use bots. Fin
