This. I follow John Burns Murdoch on social media & normally find his work great so I was really surprised that the most egregious "graph crimes" shown in this article were visualisations created by him.

I'm risking engaging in similar hyperbole, so I must stress that they're not too egregious, just mildly misleading in their significance, but it does still put the article into some question.

The x-axes are also over relatively short time periods, presumably to deemphasize massive upward trends in previous decades.