The article makes almost no effort to argue, much less prove, that Gen Z is “the most gullible” generation.
There are arguments like “Only 16 percent of Gen Zers have strong confidence in the news”. This is meaningless since “news” is so broad. Is it a good thing for someone to be confident of the news if they get their news from Info Wars and Fox News?
As Meta blocks mainstream news in Canada due to its abject refusal to pay for content the only news available on their platforms mostly comes from publishers that tend to have extreme bias in their reporting rather than the journalists that actively make an effort to confirm leads before publishing. That's absolutely going to have an effect on the quality of the material available to people that live inside of these bubbles. Not sure that's a good thing for the long term functioning of society. High quality news content requires money to pay journalists. There's no way around that fact.
Even if Facebook content is more conspiratorial and extreme, you have to prove that Gen Z is worse than all the others. Because as far as I know facebook isn’t for Gen Z, it’s for the older crowd.
To say nothing of the millions of older Americans who believe anything that shows up on Fox News.
Canada does not subscribe to the belief that platforms should be permitted to steal advertising dollars away from all local media organizations while at the same time sharing that stolen content to their users without driving traffic to the original publisher. This is law in Canada. Sovereign nations can't survive the culture war being waged by American owned platforms without laws like this.
That’s fine. But Australia took it a step further by saying that they must carry the content and must pay for this privilege. That’s what I’m disagreeing with.
There are arguments like “Only 16 percent of Gen Zers have strong confidence in the news”. This is meaningless since “news” is so broad. Is it a good thing for someone to be confident of the news if they get their news from Info Wars and Fox News?