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Fears for UK boomer radicalisation on Facebook after Meta drops factcheckers

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Fears for UK boomer radicalisation on Facebook after Meta drops factcheckers



For middle-aged users, it will be ‘even harder to discern the truth’ among extremist content, expert saysExperts fear the decision by Meta to drop professional factcheckers from Facebook will exacerbate so-called boomer radicalisation in the UK.Even before what Keir Starmer described as “far-right riots” in England last summer, alarm bells were ringing amid fears older people were even more susceptible to misinformation and radicalisation than younger “digital natives”. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/12/fears-for-uk-boomer-radicalisation-on-facebook-after-meta-drops-factcheckers

Author : Ben Quinn

Publish date : 2025-01-12 18:01:00

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