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Digital natives know to be more skeptical. These people lack basic literacy and don't understand that people can lie on the internet. In fact, it's mostly lies, always has been.
Agreed. They also in many cases remember when the Internet "was good." When every single website, tool, or product wasn't tracking every microinteraction, when your email spam was Re: Re: Re: Re: forwards, when social media was a microcosm of what it is today , and when bots didn't make up like more than half the user traffic. So the shit purpose built to engage kids and boomers falls flat.
And to your point about lying on the Internet, they forget (or flatly refuse to acknowledge) that like a corporation or government can and have easily create user accounts that look like normal people to convince people of things. Just because the name "John Goodbrown" sounds like a down to earth American and his picture is of him and his truck and cowboy boots doesn't mean it's not one of thousands of bot accounts created specifically by the FSB to cause chaos and stir opinion.