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"Importantly, these findings do not at all suggest that people with psychiatric disorders are more prone to hate speech or misinformation."
They might have it the wrong way around... People engaging in hate speech and misinformation may be more prone to psychiatric disorders.
Correlation |= causation, which is why they can't derive that conclusion.