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How families navigate information disagreements across generations

My family group chat has become this weird mix of conspiracy theories and fact-checking where my siblings and I are constantly correcting each other and our parents feel confused and left out, and family dinners are increasingly awkward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The abundance of competing information sources is fracturing family bonds along generational and epistemological lines.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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