Published: January 10, 2019
Researchers speculate that older Americans lack digital media literacy to determine trustworthiness of online news
Older people are almost four times more likely to have shared “fake news” on Facebook than the younger generation, according to research published in the journal Science.
On average, American Facebook users over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as those aged between 18 and 29, researchers from NYU and Princeton found in the study, which also concluded that actually sharing such false content was “a relatively rare activity”.
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