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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 does nor imply causation in either direction. Perhaps they're both caused by a third factor, or it's a coincidence. We can't know without doing an experiment.
Exactly - and with linguistic pattern analysis like this, the shared speech patterns could just be reflecting similar emotional states or communication styles rather than any actual psychological similarity betwen the groups.