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Table 4 Characteristics of the main discursive communities

From: Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. election: swing vs. safe states

Community	No. Users	No. Tweets	Tweets Safe	Tweets Swing	No. URL	Left	Right
Rep	269,019	2,083,158	12.35	87.65	241,488	0.59	49.74
Rep-Dem-Journ	213,679	919,949	10.39	89.61	92,412	16.18	1.86
Journ-1	197	1174	4.86	95.14	485	3.30	0.82
Journ-2	53	404	10.64	89.36	74	22.97	2.70
Others	218,880	311,232	16.44	83.56	64,136	6.62	14.60
Dataset	701,828	3,315,917	12.19	87.81	398,595	5.18	32.92

Two main communities emerge, Rep and Rep-Dem-Journ. With Others we characterize all the accounts that do not belong to the giant component: their contribution is going to be disregarded in the following, since they do not contribute to the entire debate.

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