“Well A Lot Of People Are Saying…” Begins Baby Boomer Who Has Been Reading Misinformation On Facebook

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The media literacy of Post-War Australians is on fully display today in one Betoota Heights living room, as 73-year-old Jamie Bruce begins to recounting what he believes to be unimpeachable facts.

Although he can't quite seem to remember the exact source, he knows that he read it online - which is where all the news is nowadays.

It's also something that stuck with him, because it was a rather polarising thing to read, and triggered an emotive response.

But it wouldn't be bullshit, because wherever he read it, it was the real deal.

And why would anyone just put stuff out there if it wasn't true anyway?

But that's besides the point, this was from a proper news site from memory.

Speaking to a room full of his own Baby Boomer contemporaries, the semi-retired white goods retailer who didn't even own a smartphone until 2020, feels the need share something he learnt the other day.

In relation to the current conversation about the state of the world, Jamie can't help but relay on this fairly newsworthy parcel of information he mainlined into his frontal lobe from the Meta algorithm.

"Well a lot of people are saying that kids are allowed to identify as cats at school nowadays"

"Like they have a kitty litter for them and everything. The teachers let them. Apparently it's happening everywhere"