Posted on 01/09/2019 4:21:04 PM PST by bgill
When other demographic factors and overall posting tendencies are factored in, the average person older than 65 shared seven times more false information than those between 18 and 29. The seniors shared more than twice as many fake stories as people between 45 and 64 and more than three times that of people in the 30- to 44-year-old range, said lead study author Andrew Guess, a politics professor at Princeton. The simplest theory for why older people share more false information is a lack of "digital literacy," said study co-author Joshua Tucker, also co-director of the NYU social media political lab. Senior citizens may not tell truth from lies on social networks as easily as others, the researchers said... Nagler said he was not surprised that conservatives in 2016 shared more fake information, but he and his colleagues said that does not necessarily mean that conservatives are by nature more gullible when it comes to false stories. It could simply reflect that there was much more pro-Trump and anti-Clinton false information in circulation in 2016 that it drove the numbers for sharing, they said.
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****Im a senior and I see false stories by sodpoodle on here all the time.****
You were supposed to ping me;(
This assumes that AP, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, The NY Times, the Washington Post and all the rest the crap that the young skulls full of mush watch and read, are not fake.
This is fake news about fake news.
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