Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The average supersharer was 58 years old, 17 years older than the average user in the study, and almost 60% were women. They were also far more likely to be registered Republicans (64%) than Democrats (16%). […] “They are literally sitting at their computer pressing retweet.”

  How do those numbers compare with people sharing news from more trustworthy sources?

  Another way to limit supersharing would be to cap users’ daily number of retweets. If set at 50, a cap would affect close to 90% of the fake news supersharers in the study, the researchers found, whereas only 1% of users overall would run into this limit.

  I don’t think that pre-Elon Muppet Twitter would implement a limit like this. What the article says here, from Twitter’s PoV, boils down to “1% of the users are responsible for a large amount of Twitter’s engagement, and you expect us to punish them for interacting with the platform? I don’t understand, I’m so confused…”

  And, post-Elon Muppet? Yeah, nah. Even worse.

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  • CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also wouldn’t change anything. Once they hit the limit, they create a new account.

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