Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Facebookers 2.5 Times More Likely To Read Fake News, Millennials Least Prone

Stephen Downes

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Facebook isn't worth the time you give it, of course. That's one result from this report. The other is that it is not the millennials that are conned by and clicking on fake news, it's the older generation (raised by traditional media and helpless in the face of a deliberate assault on reality). This all "according to a detailed analysis of news consumption traffic conducted by Web analytics firm Jumpshot."

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