Fears for UK boomer radicalisation on Facebook after Meta drops factcheckers
For middle-aged users, it will be ‘even harder to discern the truth’ among extremist content, expert says
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/12/fears-for-uk-boomer-radicalisation-on-facebook-after-meta-drops-factcheckers
For middle-aged users, it will be ‘even harder to discern the truth’ among extremist content, expert says
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/12/fears-for-uk-boomer-radicalisation-on-facebook-after-meta-drops-factcheckers
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Yeah, I know many older socialists/greens etc. I think there's a feeling that older people are more susceptible to internet bullshit, not being from a computer generation. My mum, for instance, fell prey to a romance scammer & right wing Christian propaganda
Now, the target is social media, and the consequences are far more serious because few are immune to consuming it.
I read the article and wonder whether the people who DON'T think for themselves are the product of a broken education system 1/
End/
#BoycottInstagram
and boycott any corporations advertising there
The correct term is mass brainwashing....
- There are too many people (overpopulation)
- We need armed guards at the border to stop the boats
- Covid is a bioweapon
- Several anti-vaccine tropes
- Several tropes about free speech, including rationalizing the top 2 by saying they are "unfiltered"
It's not easy to deal with, having to challenge these things.
The anti-cycling media hysteria is a perfect example and boomers are the perfect malleable target audience.
Those ones? 😅
How old are you? Is 88 your birth year? You seem to be illustrating my point beautifully, thank you!
If you had you’d know the experts didn’t label anyone, the journalist linked boomers to the middled aged.
The gullible will slways be gullible.
See:Brexit lies.
Post 1945 born ….eldest now 79 - 80
Not middle aged ..their offspring are middle aged
(PS, happy, at the age of 70 to be called middle-aged). #r4today
Many born in the 60’s are ‘left behind’ people due Thatcherism, and either didn’t establish careers, or it came late / got turbulent for them. Only 12-15% of the 1960’s group got degrees aged 21. More apprenticeships and normalisation of adult ed though.
So the Interwar generation is self explanatory.
Boomer is born in the baby boom post war, 1946 being a helluva year…
1964 was the true start of the next big wave of babies. Educated in portakabins 🤦♀️ 😏
I’m on the cusp & I don’t seem much like a Boomer, but the birth year range is 1946-1964.
The % of over-55s on Facebook has been increasing every year, and many of them seem to struggle with identifying fake news.
🤷🏼 go figure!
Are you sure you're not Jimmy Carr..
(please don't hate me!)
And age as well.
I always thought that people when they read think.
But no chance for them, at any age.
This is the choice they made.
There are many other media outlets as well.
On the internet.
I hasten to add not all boomers.