Table 9 Percentages of links shared, per reputability, per state type and per discursive community
From: Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. election: swing vs. safe states
Community | No. URL | swing | safe | Swing & Safe | Swing | Safe | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bot | human | bot | human | bot | human | ||||
All Links | |||||||||
Validated dataset | 78,439 | 89.92 | 10.08 | 67.59 | 32.41 | 67.87 | 32.13 | 65.06 | 34.94 |
Rep | 57,539 | 90.78 | 9.22 | 71.92 | 28.08 | 72.26 | 27.74 | 68.63 | 31.37 |
Rep-Dem-Journ | 20,900 | 87.54 | 12.46 | 55.67 | 44.33 | 55.36 | 44.64 | 57.77 | 42.23 |
Trustworthy Links (T) | |||||||||
Validated dataset | 23,036 | 83.07 | 16.93 | 62.90 | 37.10 | 62.69 | 37.31 | 63.96 | 36.04 |
Rep | 11,812 | 83.46 | 16.54 | 69.11 | 30.89 | 68.84 | 31.16 | 70.47 | 29.53 |
Rep-Dem-Journ | 11,224 | 82.65 | 17.35 | 56.37 | 43.63 | 56.15 | 43.85 | 57.42 | 42.58 |
Non-trustworthy Links (N) | |||||||||
Validated dataset | 20,627 | 91.53 | 8.47 | 73.69 | 26.31 | 74.15 | 25.85 | 68.75 | 31.25 |
Rep | 20,147 | 91.42 | 8.58 | 73.84 | 26.16 | 74.33 | 25.67 | 68.59 | 31.41 |
Rep-Dem-Journ | 480 | 96.25 | 3.75 | 67.50 | 32.50 | 66.88 | 33.12 | 83.33 | 16.67 |