Viral Threads chart claiming activity crashed 56% traced to German Green party-affiliated user
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-10-12
Raphael Wimmer traced the viral Threads chart showing a claimed -30%/-56% drop in daily activity: the same image was first posted two hours earlier (15:08 UTC) by Robin Schlingheider, a German Threads user affiliated with the Green party, and has been reposted 1.2K times.
When asked about the image's origin, the poster was evasive, pointing to a different, sourced graph that allegedly shows the same information — it doesn't. After Wimmer pressed for the actual source, he was blocked on Threads. FlorianGallwitz amplified the finding, doubting the poster made the graphic himself.
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