The age of misinformation: Older people exhibit greater partisan bias in sharing and evaluating (mis)information accuracy.

= 1,716) support the partisan congruence explanation. Age does not robustly predict discernment between true versus false information in sharing intentions or accuracy judgments. Instead, age predicts partisan biases in sharing political news and judging its accuracy, and these effects remain after controlling for income and education. The effects of age in predicting partisan information sharing are not statistically mediated by measures of cognitive reflection, need for cognition, or faith in intuition. These results suggest that older adults engage in more partisan information assessment and sharing behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).