> 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’ massive volume did not seem automated but was rather generated through manual and persistent retweeting.

This kind of people existed for a long time. Before social media, I attended university with a few women who preached religious conservative ideals. The stories were so "off" that the campus chaplains pointed out that the stories (now called fake news) weren't charitable.

After graduation, they worked minimum-paid jobs for a few years, married, became homemakers and have 5+ children. They were super active on social media, so I thought, "Why do you have so much time on hand?" In addition, living in the conservative states must be so cheap or they were so wealthy that there's only one breadwinner in the household.

We aren't in touch anymore.

Facebook outages must be hard on them.