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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women

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Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women

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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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Some of our fellow citizens seem to voluntarily do the work of spreading fake news.
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    Out of 650,000

    just 2,107 accounts that are responsible for 80 percent of the tweets linking to sources of misinformation.

    What the fuck?

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      Some people have way too much time and way too disturbing world views to be allowed on the Internet.

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        Like everyone on Lemmy

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          Up voted for the well played irony!

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            .social is mastodon.

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              Midwest.social is Lemmy. I’m even using Jerboa.

              I think. Quite honestly, I don’t pay much attention, if it works it works.

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                Oh. You’re right. Usually accounts ending with .social are hosted on mastodon, guess not in this particular case.

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              What’s your point?

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          You’ve been frequenting lemmygrad?

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