Quote Post: Andrew Guess, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker

'On average, users over 65 [in the U.S. on Facebook] shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as the youngest age group.'

(During the U.S. 2016 Presidential campaign)
 
Source: Guess, Nagler, and Tucker, ‘Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook’, ScienceAdvances, Volume 5, January 2019, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau4586

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