06-02-2024, 04:29 PM
(06-02-2024, 10:46 AM)ArMaP Wrote: My experience tells me the same.
Although I don't have many people on my Facebook friends list, I have had to correct one of them, an older woman in her 70s, tow or three times, because she shares things that are not true.
Another case I know is my boss, also a woman in her 70s, that believes and shares many things she sees on Tik Tok. Some times she tells me about those things and I have to show her that she is following wrong or false information.
Luckily, both are intelligent enough not to keep on posting the same things, but they fall again and again in those traps.
I think one of the reasons older women are such spreaders of disinformation is because they probably have large numbers of connections to other people with large numbers of connections, so just half a dozen people can spread something to a some hundreds or even a few thousands of people.
Edited to add that, from a political point of view, one the above mentioned women is from the left (as we see it in Portugal, not the definition of "left" they use in the US), the other I do not know.
They say it on the research:
Yep agreed!
Fortunately one of my friends before going "share crazy" does ask me to vett seeming crazy "bits". Not that despite me proving something is clickbait they'll change their mind.
(banging head on keyboard) But they won't after that re-post it.
I have given up (mostly) people don't actually care they're convincing the world they're too stupid to live everytime they repeat nonsense. Being "right" isn't as important as not having that stroke. I guess? Maybe?
OH! Misinformation does have a purpose. When your Doc checks your blood pressure ask them to explain why the earth is flat, or why we live in a simulation. It absolutely blows their mind you figured out how to do your own "stress test" in 5 seconds or less.
