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Originally Posted by bots

Older people have more grounding in news pre-social media so they don't absorb news the same way as those who have only known news that included internet generated fodder. It doesn't mean older people can't be fooled, but their instincts of what is real and what is false are stronger. It's much more difficult to guard against state generated news that is propaganda, when bombarded with enough of it, it's almost impossible for reality to break through


A good rule of thumb is that if you are constantly reading stuff that makes you angry after 1 or 2 paragraphs, you are reading the wrong news sources

I disagree, I think people who grew up not having heard of the concept of "fake news" are far more likely to fall for fake news. It's just a different brand of fake news.

I actually think the much more recent generations (today's teenagers and kids) are showing signs of being far less likely to fall for media manipulation; they've grown up immersed in it and their IMMEDIATE response, on hearing anything at all online, is to assume that it's BS. They've spent their whole lives seeing things online that turned out to be BS. So this was an inevitable mechanism and it'll be interesting to see how that pans out for "tomorrow's adults".