Purely anecdotally, it seems like things are the other way around and that young people are very discerning about online news consumption and fact vs fiction; a

Purely anecdotally, it seems like things are the other way around and that young people are very discerning about online news consumption and fact vs fiction; and it's older people who tend to do most of the sharing of viral misinformation and sensationalist journalism. It's also not at all obvious that a world where we have access to any number of sources of information and claim and counterclaim is worse than one where the cultural narrative happened and was controlled through the same four or five very large media outlets. As a simple fact of life too, young people are more malleable and given to respond well to 'actually you're wrong about that' or 'that article is misleading' than olds. Olds are more set in their ways and liable to double down.