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It is not lack of digital literacy that make older citizen share fake news

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It is not lack of digital literacy that make older citizen share fake news

Anna Loverus
Oct 5, 2022
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It is not lack of digital literacy that make older citizen share fake news

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"Why should I fact-check the news? It's not true anyway."

Older adults read, share, or believe misinformation at higher rates than younger audiences. The explanation behind this behaviour has often been given to either cognitive issues or digital literacy. But new research by Imani Munyaka, PhD, Eszter Hargittai and Elissa Redmiles. published in the Jour…

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