This paper is interesting. It discusses the demographics of those who most frequently engage in disseminating disinformation, and identifies that there are three primary states in which this activity is centered, and that those who engage in that activity skew towards "older republican women who are marginally wealthier than their neighbors" - which suggests summat for me and likely for anyone else who's had to endure small-town politics and the petit aristocracy therein.
There's a very specific "matriarch who is Involved With the Community" type that shows up in those situations - someone who is universally described as -nice- but nearly never as -kind-, y'know? Someone who will -absolutely- help out with the school bake sale - and probably take over operations regardless of others' opinions - who has the kids who are "so very polite and well-behaved"
@munin I was homeschooled. Fun fact: local homeschool communities are basically an endless Game of Thrones between a bunch of these women, trying to act as polite as possible while they're trying to take each other down
It was mostly hanging around the house reading encyclopedias, studying calculus, building suspension bridges out of k'nex and string, and teaching myself C++.