- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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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?
Some people have way too much time and way too disturbing world views to be allowed on the Internet.
Like everyone on Lemmy
So the term “old wives’ tale” is still holds up?
I can clearly see this around me.
Not only women, but also elder men, who are really educated but lose their lucidity in front of fake news on the web. I guess it’s also because they come from a time where you were not swimming in fake news.
And sometimes, even if they think it might be fake news, they just send it to you to get your opinion on it.
My mother, an otherwise brilliant woman, was convinced that Prilosec causes Alzheimer’s
My mom is convinced the covid vaccine is going to kill me.
It is. I heard it making sinister plans with some sketchy characters out back o the Wendy’s
What a stupid headline.
“So who are these people? They’re a bit more likely to be female. While both the comparison groups were roughly evenly split between male and female, the superspreaders were 60 percent female. They’re also older, on average 58 years old, nearly 20 years older than the sample as a whole.”
So it’s not older women but older people, a bit more often women than men
And perhaps statistically insignificant when proportionally adjusted (men die younger or fewer use social media).
There’s this expression, it refers to a piece of information that is often spread as wisdom but has no basis in fact or truth, that expression is “old wives tale.”
Old wives be trippin’.
