Anyone else dooming about gen z?

I'm so tired of watching people my age in this country fall for such obvious propaganda. How can we be at the same time a digitally native generation yet so many of us can't recognize basic media manipulation when we see it? Like zoomers boycotted Starbucks because of some weak connection to Israel but can't cut themselves off from a social media platform with much stronger ties to the CCP, or every single time find themselves being baited into believing Russian misinformation. It has to be something correlated with the increasing illiteracy rates amongst young adults or something idk, I feel so hopeless none of these people are normal.