{"source":{"name":"The Evidence Hub - on the regulation of digital services","url":"https:\/\/evidencehub.net","license":"Creative Common CC-BY 4.0 International"},"data":[{"data":[0.05,0.12,0.26,0.75],"name":"Mean Number of Fake News Stories Shared"}],"_data":[["Age group","Mean Number of Fake News Stories Shared"],["18-29","0.05"],["30-44","0.12"],["45-65","0.26"],["Over 65","0.75"]],"labels":{"name":"Age group","values":["18-29","30-44","45-65","Over 65"]},"metadata":{"link":"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/advances\/5\/1\/eaau4586.full.pdf","type":"Problem","unit":"Mean number of fake news stories shared","year":"2019","title":"Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group","topic":"Disinformation","method":"Survey (N=5000)","source":"Guess, 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)","sub_topic":"Prevalence of disinformation","chart_number":"78","geographical":"United States"},"description":"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\u2014including education, ideology, and partisanship\u2014constant.  The coefficient on \u201cAge over 65\u201d 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."}