The falsehoods identified by VineSight were not run-of-the-mill social media jabs, but high-performing tweets that passed a certain threshold for virality.
Most of the tweets garnered hundreds of thousands of retweets, conveying a certain level of influence on the platform.
Several such tweets targeting Harris revived a classic, racist attack on her nationality. The posts alleged that her identity as a black woman was somehow in question, owing to her father's Jamaican origins, and"trolls have been using videos on Twitter and Facebook to make the story go viral," according to the report. Jamaican identity, of course, does not preclude Harris from having African ancestry.
Other Democratic candidates received their fair share of misinformation and viral falsehoods. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, respectively, received the third and fourth highest amounts of Twitter misinformation around the July primary debates.
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