So some jerk went and created a fake Google-plus account purporting to be that of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. The account, now defunct, appeared to have been around for quite some time, and it contained dozens of completely serious-looking Krugman-like posts. It was “in circles” with several people you’d expect to be in Paul Krugman’s circles (assuming that their accounts aren’t also made up) — Ezra Klein, Daily Kos, Jim Geraghty, etc.

So naturally, this fraudulent poster had a lot of people going on Twitter last night (including myself) with the post above.