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Re:Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking by eucryphia on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:05PM (#27112946)
"We identified N=2,000 users who shared false political news on Twitter"

Who gets to say it's false?

Activist journalists?

Re:Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking by crooked-v on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:17PM (#27113021)
The study lists eleven specific claims that were tracked, all objectively false, six of which were primarily shared by conservative users and four primarily shared by liberal users.
Re:Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking by thu2111 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @08:33AM (#27117285)
That was my first thought too but I looked at the list of claims. They're all very US centric and I hadn't heard of any of them, but none obviously jumped out as true but rated false. There was one about a fabricated quote assigned to a US politician, and I couldn't find any original source for it (and it was suspiciously extreme anyway).

At the very least if one was incorrectly classified you'd need to do some legwork to demonstrate that.