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We derive rigorously the mean-field kinetic equation describing the large population limit of the model, and we provide several quantitative results establishing convergence to the unique equilibrium distribution. Surprisingly, in some range of the model parameters, the support of the equilibrium distribution exhibits a fractal structure, linking the mean-field description of our opinion dynamics to the concept of Bernoulli convolutions studied extensively in the fractal geometry literature [P. Erd\u00f6s, Amer. J. Math., 61 (1939), pp. 974\u2013976], [P. P. Varj\u00fa, European Congress of Mathematics,\u00a0European Mathematical Society (EMS),\u00a0Z\u00fcrich,\u00a02018, pp. 847\u2013867]. 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