Old and conservative people shared the most fake news on Facebook in 2016

Seth Borenstein recently wrote an article on Global News, on January 9, 2019, about a study that happened during the 2016 election season on who shared the most fake news. This study concluded that the people over 65 years old are the one who shared the most Facebook fakery and those people tend to be more conservative. They shared fake news seven times more than young adult. Joshua Tucker have a theory for those results, he thinks that it is because of the lack of “digital literacy”; senior citizens have difficulties to tell the truth from social media as easily than younger people. The…