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Older adults more exposed to low-credibility online health informationCEFR A1

24 Feb 2026

Adapted from Brian Maffly - U. Utah, Futurity CC BY 4.0

Photo by Aubrey Odom, Unsplash

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  • University of Utah researchers watched people browsing online.
  • They tracked web activity to find health sites.
  • The study followed more than one thousand adults.
  • It lasted four weeks and tracked visits.
  • Few people visited low-credibility health sites.
  • A small group made most of those visits.
  • Older adults saw these questionable sites more often.
  • Researchers say helping seniors evaluate content could be useful.
  • The study also looked at online videos.
  • The research appears in the journal Nature Aging.

Difficult words

  • researcherpeople in the study, watched web activity
    researchers
  • browsevisited web sites online to find health sites
    browsing
  • trackfollowed web activity and visits four weeks
    tracked
  • questionablesites older adults saw more often
  • seniorolder adults in the study saw questionable sites
    seniors

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Discussion questions

  • Do you visit health sites online?
  • Do you watch online videos?
  • Do older people in your family use the internet?

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