Digital-native teenagers are as vulnerable to misinformation as adults

Evidence

In fact, adults aren’t the only ones duped by fake news. It might be tempting to reason that our kids are much more resilient to misinformation – after all, they’re ‘digital natives’: they’ve grown up with Twitter, Tik-Tok, and the internet. And yes, although it might be true that the average digital literacy level of a teenager is higher than that of some elderly individuals, it is important to note that their brains are just as easily fooled. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 47

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: the ‘digital native’ myth — why growing up online confers no automatic epistemic immunity.
• XREF: connects to: Everyone is cognitively susceptible to misinformation, not just outliers — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 6; Digital natives are the best-adjusted teens on record by statistical measures. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 419

Broader Connections

• Everyone is cognitively susceptible to misinformation, not just outliers #corroborates (0.92) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 6
• Digital natives are the best-adjusted teens on record by statistical measures. #complicates (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 419