The spread of fake news has been increasing, which gives rise to a special interest in the development of identification and coping skills among news consumers so that they can filter out misleading information. Studies suggest that older people share more fake news from social media. There is scarce literature that analyse how baby boomers behave in the face of fake news. The purpose of this study is to examine how female baby boomers deal with fake news on Facebook and their available resources to learn how to identify and handle dubious information. A qualitative study and thematic analysis were conducted using information obtained from interviewing female baby boomers. Four themes emerge from the analysis, revealing that participants recognise that they can identify fake news but may not always be able to do so due to limitations in their understanding of an issue or uncertainty about its source. Participants show participants empirically develop critical identification and filtering skills with the assistance from close family members.

翻译：假新闻的传播一直在增加,这引起了对发展新闻消费者识别和应对技能的特别兴趣,以便他们能够过滤误导性信息。研究表明,老年人分享了来自社交媒体的更多假新闻。很少有文献分析婴儿潮人面对假新闻的行为。这项研究的目的是研究女婴儿潮人如何在Facebook上处理假新闻,以及她们如何利用现有资源来学习如何识别和处理可疑信息。利用采访女婴儿潮人获得的信息进行了定性研究和专题分析。分析中出现了四个主题,表明参与者认识到他们能够识别假新闻,但由于他们对一个问题的理解有限或对其来源的不确定性,他们可能并不总是能够这样做。与会者展示了在近亲的帮助下,在经验上发展了关键的识别和过滤技能。