Study: Older Republicans Likelier To Spread Fake News On Facebook

In the United States, Facebook users 65 and older are far more likely to share ‘fake news’ -- a habit that greatly increased the spread of misinformation during the 2016 presidential election.

That’s according to a new study in Science Advances, which found 11% of those 65 and older share …

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  1. PJ Lehrer from NYU, January 23, 2019 at 1:36 p.m.

    Perhaps because they are the most worried about the future?  More here...
    http://pjlehrer.blogspot.com/2018/04/four-million-people-in-america-will.html

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