Using Media Literacy to Fight Digital Fake News in Later Life: A Mission Impossible?

Editorial: Post-pandemic digital realities of older adults

“…The knowledge contributed to this Research Topic can and should benefit members of the wider scholarly communities, and we hope future investigations will take note of the respective findings published throughout the different articles published here. Additionally, we hope future readers of this Research Topic will realize that continuing to work within their own echo chambers is not conducive to the overall goals of reducing digital exclusion, enhancing digital inclusion, and actually planning for future aging populations, because Generation X and other younger cohorts have different needs and experiences of digital technologies and practices (Marston and del Carmen Miranda Duro, 2020 ; Loos and Ivan, 2023 ). Therefore, when younger generations reach later life, their expectations will differ to that of the current older population, and they will expect appropriate solutions.…”