Did you get that from Facebook?

 Sources: 

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2023/06/30/visual-misinformation-is-widespread-on-facebook-and-often-undercounted-by-researchers/

Gen-Zers today often joke about our older relatives' Facebook activities. From the oversharing to the 'cringy' but encouraging messages received from uncles and aunts you don't remember. These are light hearted moments masking a larger issue facing digital immigrants. 

Meta values virality, there is an incentive to produce misinformation. Most surprising, it is not based on what's read but what's seen. The most rampant forms of misinformation stem from out-of-context and altered images used to push a controversial narrative. This will garner the desired attention as there is always someone willing to debate "unpopular" and controversial opinions and people who are comforted by the fact someone else shares an opinion they would be ostracized for. 

In this way, they lack understanding of the source of discourse. I wonder if more digital natives and immigrants were informed of the sources, understanding the disingenuous attempts for interaction, how engagement would change on social media platforms.