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Elderly, conservatives shared more Facebook fakery in 2016
kvue ^ | Jan. 9, 2019 | Seth Borenstein, AP

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conservatives; democratsdiditin2018; dnctalkingpoints; facebook; fakenews; projection; smearcampaign
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Hahahahaha! Harvard, snort. To be sure, Camera Hogg will be further investigating this study and FR will be sharing humorous retorts.

Sorry, Harvard. Intelligent elderly conservatives share fake news to make others aware of the lies.

1 posted on 01/09/2019 4:21:04 PM PST by bgill
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BS


2 posted on 01/09/2019 4:28:35 PM PST by tiki
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The article refers to "debunked site", but doesn't give examples of any.

Also, the article says: "People who called themselves liberals essentially shared no fake stories, Guess said." Really???

3 posted on 01/09/2019 4:31:34 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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Did the use a liberal “fact checker” to verify this?


4 posted on 01/09/2019 4:31:55 PM PST by jospehm20
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Sure, if you mean “fake” by the standard lib definition of stuff they don’t agree with.


5 posted on 01/09/2019 4:35:12 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Im a senior and I see false stories by sodpoodle on here all the time.


6 posted on 01/09/2019 4:37:38 PM PST by spintreebob
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The article refers to “debunked site”, but doesn't give examples of any.

Yes they did, facebook is a self debunked site

7 posted on 01/09/2019 4:43:33 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Borenstein taking time out from pushing the global warming barrow


8 posted on 01/09/2019 4:44:32 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: mountainlion

LOL! OK, you got me there.


9 posted on 01/09/2019 4:46:30 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: bgill

AP ?

Got Facts?


10 posted on 01/09/2019 4:51:52 PM PST by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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The elderly are pretty much all that’s left on Facebook.


11 posted on 01/09/2019 4:53:37 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: tiki

All the Democrat MSM have become pathological liars.

Just like Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama.

They like him because they are just like him, at heart.


12 posted on 01/09/2019 4:56:53 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: spintreebob; sodpoodle

LOL


13 posted on 01/09/2019 4:57:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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That’s crap. The older people probably shared more conservative content, which was then labeled by the “researchers” as fake news.


14 posted on 01/09/2019 5:29:43 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("A wall, not because we hate the people outside of it, but because we love the people inside.")
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To: bgill

Another Seth borenstein bon mot.


15 posted on 01/09/2019 5:32:41 PM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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TRANSLATION: Older people remember when news organizations reported objective facts, not opinion disguised as news.

Young people have grown-up with the New News and can't recognize the distinction.

Older people share "false information" because they know they're not getting facts anymore and no longer trust the MSM.

16 posted on 01/09/2019 5:38:10 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Some definitions to keep in mind when reading this study:

false information = opinions that we enlightened progressives do no agree with

facts = opinions we enlightened progressive professors hold.

asf...


17 posted on 01/09/2019 5:41:54 PM PST by VietVet
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Like some of my Dad's emails.

Subject: re: re: Re: fwd: Fwd: Re: re: re: Fwd: Obama

18 posted on 01/09/2019 5:49:01 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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>>Also, the article says: “People who called themselves liberals essentially shared no fake stories, Guess said.” Really???

BULLSTALIN

the MSM had to retract numerous fake news stories about Trump last year


19 posted on 01/09/2019 8:30:01 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: SaveFerris

Stalinists lie. Always


20 posted on 01/09/2019 8:30:49 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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