Bradley K. Sherman
2024-06-01 20:34:20 UTC
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| 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.
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| The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University,
| Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted
| but complement each other well.
| ...
<https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/misinformation-works-and-a-handful-of-social-supersharers-sent-80-of-it-in-2020/>
--bks