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Misinformation works, and a handful of social 'supersharers' sent 80% of it in 2020
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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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I can't help but wonder if it's 80% from old, Republican women because there just aren't as many old, Republican men. They don't live as long as Democrats:
(Yes, it's true: Republicans policies and lifestyles literally result in more unnecessary/early deaths... It's right there)
Or it could be that old, Republican men still haven't figured out how to copy & paste a URL or use the share/retweet buttons 🤷
In my experience old Republican men generally have some hobbies, in my area it tends to be hot rodding. But old Republican women not so much, so they end up playing shitty facebook games and posting shit.
I think it’s more that old republican men don’t like the internet, just going off my dad and his age group at the church I grew up in they all think it’s a waste of time or a communist plot. For reference these men are in their late 60s
It has certainly been a massive waste of time for me, I see where they are coming from there TBH.
You ain’t wrong, but these same guys still pay their bills with checks in the mail so I don’t think I’m gonna give them much credit on that point
It may vary by region as well. Most old dudes in my area arent all that religious unless their Mormons or some shit, they just want to do their own things.
Just go look at all the tankie fake news yugthos posts over on lemmygrad.ml for a taste of how that works with Lemmy.
Yep, lemmy isn't even immune to it. There's only something like 34k MAU on this side of the fediverse yet we're still under a constant barrage of misinformation. politics@lemmy.world isn't any better than reddit's r/politics in that regard. The mods here, if I'm being generous with my interpretation, labor under the same misguided sense of "impartiality" that allows misinformation to thrive there.
We've got one user posting anti-Biden nonsense 24/7 while tossing in just enough "actual" news for plausible deniability... And it works. I don't even have to name any names, if you've been on lemmy for the last year and paying attention to political subs, I guarantee you already know who I'm referring to.
Lol. Just block Ozma already. I did and I don't miss it.
Oh I did that months ago. But I’m not gonna shy away from calling out active propagandists spreading misinformation and the mods for allowing it.
Both those guys are banned instance-wide on the instance I run.
Disinfo research was a hobby of mine for a few years so I have zero tolerance for it.
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.
I bet my MIL is one of 'em lmao.