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Age Variation Among US Adults’ Social Media Experiences and Beliefs About Who Is Responsible for Reducing Health-Related Falsehoods: Secondary Analysis of a National Survey

Age Variation Among US Adults’ Social Media Experiences and Beliefs About Who Is Responsible for Reducing Health-Related Falsehoods: Secondary Analysis of a National Survey

Altogether, this suggests older adults are more susceptible to harms stemming from health-related falsehoods on social media. To reduce online falsehoods, various entities have adopted several measures, including the use of algorithms by social media companies to automatically detect falsehoods, but these are neither built nor deployed with older adults in mind [8,9]. Few studies examine the perspectives of older adults regarding their beliefs about the best ways to address falsehoods online.

Prathyusha Galinkala, Elise Atkinson, Celeste Campos-Castillo

JMIR Aging 2024;7:e56761