Supersharers of fake news on Twitter

0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 59 points –
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The authors found that supersharers were disproportionately Republican, middle-aged White women residing in three conservative states, Arizona, Florida, and Texas, which are focus points of contentious abortion and immigration battles. Their neighborhoods were poorly educated but relatively high in income. Supersharers persistently retweeted misinformation manually.

Add this to the list of ways that Karens are taking down our country.

The initial sentence didn't surprise me but the second one did.

The way I interpreted it is that they are in a neighborhood that was affordable (i.e. black/Latino otherwise redlined) and are complaining that there aren't enough white people around them.

Ah yes, the "I'm not racist, but..." demographic.

They’re called conservatives. Not to be confused with the overtly racist far-right.

Republicans have a spectrum of racism as Democrats have a spectrum of acceptance.

When they're publishing papers about your cesspool in Science, you know you done fucked up.