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by Item_Boring 1990 days ago
I can’t answer your question but maybe you’ll find this paper interesting [0]. TLDR: social bots are highly responsible for spreading misinformation - and for such also conspiracy theories. By tagging people with a lot of followers and tweeting the information multiple times they attempt to make it go viral. Keep in mind that this paper concerns the 2016 elections.

[0] http://cs.furman.edu/~tallen/csc271/source/viralBot.pdf