I've heard it said only half-jokingly that people are worried about social media being as bad for today's generation as television was for their parents. Television was - and continues to be - a disaster for public knowledge, in my view. According to this report, we might be better off with the internet (even with cesspools like 4chan and Facebook). "About a third of 18- to 49-year-olds (32%) correctly identified all five of the factual statements as factual, compared with two-in-ten among those ages 50 and older." I tried the test myself and scored 5 out of 5, of course.
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