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Also, politics aside, the younger generation has some sophistication about domain names (which are essentially their news sources) in general. They know a doma
by gdulli 8y ago
Also, politics aside, the younger generation has some sophistication about domain names (which are essentially their news sources) in general.
They know a domain that's been around vs. one like justice-freedom-eagle.usa that looks like a default wordpress template with stock clip art.
They may get their news from aggregators and live in their respective bubbles, but they're more likely to see through a shady looking site with headlines like "Pope endorses Trump" or "Hillary leads Trump away in handcuffs." As much as the respective sides want to believe those things.
- seattle_spring 8y ago> the younger generation has some sophistication about domain names (which are essentially their news sources) in general. Is that really true though? A lot of the younger folks on my Facebook share stuff from things like "natural-truth-health.net" or "gmo-truth-toxic.tk" or "naturalnews.com".
- magduf 8y agoYeah, the "natural health" thing is an actual religion these days, and lots of younger people buy into it.
- davidkellis 8y agoPolitics is religion nowadays as well.
- icebraining 8y agoIt always has been. Quite often very literally.
- gdulli 8y agoIt makes sense that fewer people who grew up with the internet would be fooled. But there will still be people of every age who lack the sophistication.