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Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
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[–] amzd@kbin.social 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Like everyone on Lemmy

[–] MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Up voted for the well played irony!

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

.social is mastodon.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

What's your point?

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You've been frequenting lemmygrad?