About a year ago I came across a few headlines on social media that older adults were the population spreading fake news the most.
After investigating I came across more sources that said the same thing, that older adults shared the most fake news, not for fun though. But because they genuinely could not tell the difference.
Instances like this show why many scholars and other individuals who have a vested interest in bridging the digital divide, assert that access is not enough but literacy in using forms of ICTs even if it just facebook, is important.
Into the Digital Divide 