Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group
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EmailClick to copy linkLink copiedCiteGuess, Andrew, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker. Less Than You Think: Prevalence and Predictions of Fake News Dissemination on Facebook (New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019) (2022). Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group [Dataset]. https://evidencehub.net/chart/average-number-of-fake-news-stories-shared-on-facebook-by-age-group-78.0jsonAvailable download formatsDataset updatedFeb 11, 2022Dataset provided byThe Lisbon CouncilAuthorsGuess, Andrew, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker. Less Than You Think: Prevalence and Predictions of Fake News Dissemination on Facebook (New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019)LicenseAttribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License information was derived automaticallyMeasurement techniqueSurvey (N=5000)DescriptionThe chart shows that that the oldest Americans, especially those over 65, were more likely to share fake news to their Facebook friends. This is true even when holding other characteristics—including education, ideology, and partisanship—constant. The coefficient on “Age over 65” implies that being in the oldest age group was associated with sharing nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains on Facebook as those in the youngest age group, or about 2.3 times as many as those in the next-oldest age group, holding the effect of ideology, education, and the total number of web links shared constant.
Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group
- evidencehub.net
jsonUpdated Feb 11, 2022ShareFacebookTwitterEmailClick to copy linkLink copiedCiteGuess, Andrew, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker. Less Than You Think: Prevalence and Predictions of Fake News Dissemination on Facebook (New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019) (2022). Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group [Dataset]. https://evidencehub.net/chart/average-number-of-fake-news-stories-shared-on-facebook-by-age-group-74.0jsonAvailable download formatsDataset updatedFeb 11, 2022Dataset provided byThe Lisbon CouncilAuthorsGuess, Andrew, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker. Less Than You Think: Prevalence and Predictions of Fake News Dissemination on Facebook (New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019)LicenseAttribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License information was derived automaticallyMeasurement techniqueSurvey (N=5000)DescriptionThe chart shows that Americans over 65 were more likely to share fake news to their Facebook friends, regardless of their education, ideology, and partisanship. The oldest age group was likely to share nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains on Facebook as those in the youngest age group, or about 2.3 times as many as those in the next-oldest age group. The data regarding the age group 18-29 and 30-44 are not displayed in the source, therefore the value of data in this chart are approximate, determined with pixel count.
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The chart shows that that the oldest Americans, especially those over 65, were more likely to share fake news to their Facebook friends. This is true even when holding other characteristics—including education, ideology, and partisanship—constant. The coefficient on “Age over 65” implies that being in the oldest age group was associated with sharing nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains on Facebook as those in the youngest age group, or about 2.3 times as many as those in the next-oldest age group, holding the effect of ideology, education, and the total number of web links shared constant.