Misinformation works, and a handful of social 'supersharers' sent 80% of it in 2020 | TechCrunch
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The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers,” predominately older Republican women, were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at

    Fucking Karens…

    They’re traced it back to a little over 2,000 registered US voters, but about 1/20 Americans followed at least one of them on social media?

    That’s insane, I figured there’d be more Kenvin Bacons in there rather than that many directly following the most popular misinformation spreaders.