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media and misinformation
This indie film's title evolves with sweet
irony as Ed find himself having to choose
between incessant planning for a catastrophic
tomorrow, his garage packed with years' worth
of canned goods, batteries, and the like, versus
one so unexpected glimmering with happiness
- but only if he can puncture his survivalist
trepidations like a can of pork 'n' beans.
The Tomorrow Man's romantic antidote
to later life loneliness and fake news may
not inoculate every isolated senior addicted
to the freshest online or Fox News outrage,
but short of offering another elder version
of Tinder, serious efforts to address old-age
isolation may offer many a more hopeful and
accurate perspective.
Unsurprisingly, surveys have shown that
more than ever, social media rapidly escalates
elders' embrace of the wildest claims. A
study of online sharing of unfounded conspiracy
claims in the wake of the 2016 election
revealed that although the practice was
rare, " On average, users over 65 shared nearly
seven times as many articles from fake news
domains as the youngest age group " in the survey.
Axios' Sara Fischer and Neal Rothschild reported
Sept. 14, the day of California's recall election against
Gov. Gavin Newsom, " Even without access to the
major social media platforms to amplify them, " Donald
Trump's unrelenting claims of voting fraud gives " conservative
pundits and politicians license to use the 'Big
Lie' falsehood to preemptively undermine any election,
which could impact voter turnout. "
They reported, " Data from Zignal Labs, a social
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baffled by what news is true, what's false-
and how to tell allegations apart.
Pink Slime
Lurking in the shadows of accuracy is not
the threat of Tomorrow Man's apocalypse, but
" pink slime, " says Katy Byron, director of the
Poynter Institute's MediaWise program. " I'm
not talking about the stuff that makes hot
dogs. I'm talking about fake local news websites
that push misinformation, nicknamed
'pink slime' because they try to mimic the look
of credible sources like your local news. "
Byron told GBONews.org in an email, " These
media intelligence firm, finds that between June 1 and
September 1, mentions of things like 'fraud,' election
'rigging' or 'stealing ballots' received hundreds of
thousands of mentions, with occurrences spiking in
the past two weeks. "
Even though the recall effort failed in the end,
those numbers are sobering. So are the truly
life-threatening figures for the spread of the Delta
variant by the often-misled unvaccinated. Aside from
the relatively small number of older adults caught
up in nefarious speculation, many seniors are simply
sites are full of hyper-partisan or misleading
stories trying to influence you, and they're
common. Columbia University researchers
tracking pink slime sites say hundreds have
popped up this year. " The Columbia Journalism
Review reported on the study results last year.
Generations Beat writers worried about the
inundation of misinformation on voting, climate
change, and health - some of it literally killing
thousands per day from the Delta variant - may want
to tell your audiences about MediaWise for Seniors.
The nonprofit Poynter Institute, a leading journalism
educator, initiated MediaWise for young news
consumers in 2018. Then, as evidence mounted
showing older-adult susceptibility to bad information
with the presidential campaign and onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic, Poynter started MediaWise for
Seniors in June 2020 to counter the " infodemic " of
misinformation.
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