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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Sorry, Harvard. Intelligent elderly conservatives share fake news to make others aware of the lies.
BS
Also, the article says: "People who called themselves liberals essentially shared no fake stories, Guess said." Really???
Did the use a liberal “fact checker” to verify this?
Sure, if you mean “fake” by the standard lib definition of stuff they don’t agree with.
Im a senior and I see false stories by sodpoodle on here all the time.
Yes they did, facebook is a self debunked site
Borenstein taking time out from pushing the global warming barrow
LOL! OK, you got me there.
AP ?
Got Facts?
The elderly are pretty much all that’s left on Facebook.
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.
LOL
That’s crap. The older people probably shared more conservative content, which was then labeled by the “researchers” as fake news.
Another Seth borenstein bon mot.
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.
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...
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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
Stalinists lie. Always
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