Younger Americans are better than older Americans at telling factual news statements from opinions

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Younger Americans are better than older Americans at telling factual news statements from opinions
Jeffrey Gottfried, Pew Research Center, 2018/10/25
I've heard it said only half-jokingly that people are worried about social media being as bad for today's generation as television was for their parents. Television was - and continues to be - a disaster for public knowledge, in my view. According to this report, we might be better off with the internet (even with cesspools like 4chan and Facebook). More...