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[Misleading] First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news (phys.org)
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Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.

The paper

Edit: the article might be misrepresenting the study and its findings, so it's worth checking the paper itself. (See @realChem 's comment in the thread).

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[โ€“] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Weird. The only people I know that continually and aggressively bring up very obvious misinformation are the 50+ people in my life.

[โ€“] Ulu-Mulu-no-die@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's anecdotal experience, I'm 50+ and I got 19/20, I 100% identified all fakes and marked fake one of the real ones, so I'm on the skeptical side of things.

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