A new study confirms something we all already suspected to be true: people older than 65 are more likely to share fake news on Facebook than people of other ages. Age was a better predictor of sharing fake news than any other factor, including sex, race, income, social media usage, or even political affiliation.
A new study confirms something we all already suspected to be true: people older than 65 are more likely to share fake news on Facebook than people of other ages. Age was a better predictor of sharing fake news than any other factor, including sex, race, income, social media usage, or even political affiliation.
The study, published in Science Advances, looked at the behavior of Facebook users before and after the 2016 election.
From The Verge:
One perhaps somewhat surprising result of the study was that sharing fake news is actually pretty rare.
