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- technology@lemmit.online
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- technology@lemmit.online
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.::undefined
So you agree the article is sensationalist? Why link me a study that is irrelevant for no reason?
The article is not sensationalist. Please quote me a part of the article that you feel is and I can address the statements that make you feel that way.
Because that study is referenced as one of the primary sources the article uses to provide evidence for the phenomenon it discusses. The link to that research paper is literally in the article. It’s critical to the article.
You just broke it down on how it sensationalized some completely bs data because boomers aren’t online as much as zoomers. You’ve gotta be trolling with this
You can say the title is clickbait, but that doesn’t make it sensationalist. I feel like either you and I have totally different definitions of sensationalist, or you think the article is doing something it’s not. The article does the following
I’d like to know what part of that is sensationalist to you, because in my mind that is a remarkably by the numbers tech article.
Also, the data itself is not “BS” - it’s something that is accurate, but has to be understood within a specific context. That’s literally what the article is doing - contextualizing the information. You are saying it’s sensationalizing the data. It’s not. If anything it’s doing the opposite. It’s making the data more mundane by providing logical explanations for it.
Sensationalism- the use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy.
You clearly grasp it is surprising or shocking and you clearly grasp that a higher percentage of Z are online in their generation than the percentage of boomers online.
You’ve got to be trolling at this point.
What part of this article is inaccurate?