https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0302201
Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter
This chart shows the breakdown by political affiliation of the superspreaders of misinformation.
Just 10 accounts were responsible for a third of the misinformation. Just 1,000 accounts were responsible for 70% of such tweets.
It is remarkable how concentrated such misinformation is on social media.
This reminds of the "disinformation dozen" who produced the bulk of the anti-vaxxer disinformation on social media.
Or how Trump was by far the largest source for misinformation on the coronavirus pandemic.
People often make it seem like misinformation is so diffuse and endless that trying to combat it is a fool's errand. But that's not really the case.
We see this in research on deplatforming in particular. When you cut off their access to wide audiences, most entities aren't able to easily replicate those networks elsewhere.