I read this as “owners of CNN and Vox are mostly over 65” and had a giggle.
People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
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#12And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check…
Is digital literacy the problem? Believing that a prominent politician ran a prostitution ring is a basic reasoning problem. I think we'll have to wait until they die off.
They are taking Dominique Strauss-Kahn down for exactly that.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#13And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check…
Aren't employers legally required to give you time off to vote? In roughly half of the states it's paid time off as well.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#14It makes sense - they grew up in a time where news was (relatively) reliable/truthful, so perhaps don't have the same "this may not be true" skepticism that younger generations have.
Sorta. Propaganda is not a new thing.
No, but I think the parent is correct.
I grew up with the Internet. I was reading wacky conspiracy theories in my teens. It made me more skeptical of virtually anything I see in print since I learned how easy it is to create a BS narrative and fit details into it. I also learned what propaganda is, how it works, and how prevalent it is.
Older generations grew up with a one-way opaque screen preaching to them. Obviously not everything on that screen was true, but when it was called "news" it was held to some standard and so was probably more likely to be true than not. They also had no way of delving deeper, no way of querying or seeking out an alternative opinion or discussing it with other members of the audience.
That generation grew up trusting things on screens.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#15And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check…
Aren't employers legally required to give you time off to vote? In roughly half of the states it's paid time off as well.
They might be, but is it paid time off? If it's not, then many people may choose to work instead. Especially shift workers being paid on an hourly basis rather than salary.
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#16I think people older than age 65 are more interested in "news" period.
Older people also vote so they are worth targeting, particularly by right-wing organizations that would like to mobilize them.
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#17And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check…
Aren't employers legally required to give you time off to vote? In roughly half of the states it's paid time off as well.
> Aren't employers legally required to give you time off to vote?
Only 30 states require this (no federal requirement exists), and not all of them required paid time off to vote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/can-i-leave-work-early-to-vo...
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#18Then again, people older than 65 share the most stuff period, if my relatives are any indication.
Long before there was Facebook, back in the age of AOL, my older relatives would share endless e-mails about things they thought were funny.
It seems like anything about Viagra would get a laugh.
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#19It makes sense - they grew up in a time where news was (relatively) reliable/truthful, so perhaps don't have the same "this may not be true" skepticism that younger generations have.
The audience for the Fox News channel skew older heavily and Rupert Murdoch made no secret Fox News was created solely for the purpose of airing a right wing narrative, all facts aside. The article says a bland both sides do it objectivity worthy of NPR then states a 4:1 ratio in GOP/Democratic favouring stories, signficantly almost all of them were to the benefit of Donald Trump in the runup/immediately after the 2016 election.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#20It makes sense - they grew up in a time where news was (relatively) reliable/truthful, so perhaps don't have the same "this may not be true" skepticism that younger generations have.
Also, the older an American is, the less education they're likely to have received [1].
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/785618/educational-attai...