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online proliferation covid19 misinformation led adverse health societal consequences study investigated possible differences covid19 headline accuracy discernment online sharing covid19 misinformation older younger adults well role individual differences global cognition health literacy verbal iq fiftytwo younger 1835 years old fifty older adults age 50 older completed neurocognitive battery health literacy numeracy measures selfreport questionnaires via telephone participants also completed social media headlinesharing experiment pennycook et al psychological science 317 770780 2020 presented true false covid19 headlines indicated 1 likelihood would share story social media 2 factual accuracy story repeated measures multivariate analysis variance controlling gender raceethnicity showed effects age p 099 significant interaction actual covid19 headline accuracy likelihood sharing p 001 accuracy strongly related sharing false headlines r 64 versus true headlines r 43 moreover higher likelihood sharing false covid19 headlines associated lower verbal iq numeracy skills older adults rs 5140 lower verbal iq numeracy global cognition younger adults rs 6660 findings indicate headline accuracy judgements numeracy verbal iq important contributors sharing covid19 misinformation older younger adults future work might examine benefits psychoeducation improving health science literacy covid19 online version contains supplementary material available 101007s1214402304464w