•One way the authors explain why women may not engage with political matters as much as men is using the existence of structural inequalities. If we consider that women are, in general, less educated about political matters and are less socialized than men to engage in political matters, the ‘cognitive costs’ of focusing and making sense of political topics might be higher. They also consider the effect the general conception that technology is a male dominated field might have on women’s relationship with technology and fake news.

•The authors conclude that there are few differences between genders with regard to disinformation. There are more observable gender differences in other related matters such as social media use or news consumption.