A lot of older generations remember the internet as this new thing where criminal activity flourished long before social media and all that became a thing. To them the internet was demonized by the news they watch and looks like a wild west. depending on idealogy, you can either find a left wing or right wing broadcast to feed you whatever propaganda makes you feel good. Another part is it's fact that old age makes people more stubborn towards different views and new methods of doing things because they just lived a longer life and have a larger wealth of past experience which grounds a sense of what is reality and what is normal.