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Duke Professor/Director of http://PolarizationLab.com  & http://SICSS.io , author of "Breaking the Social Media Prism" (http://bit.ly/3dH2izn ) & "Terrified" ✍️ NYT, WaPo, CNN

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    Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

    1/8 Did you know that Twitter is experimenting with new features that would expose its users to opposing political views? In this @nytimes piece, I describe why this idea could backfire based upon a large online experiment recently conducted by my lab:https://nyti.ms/2Nu45gL 

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      2. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        2/8 We surveyed, 1,225 Republican and Democratic Twitter users about their views on social policies. One week later, we offered them money to follow a Twitter account which they were told would tweet 24 times each day for one month. They were not told what the bots would tweet.pic.twitter.com/VChSqrJwyT

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      3. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        3/8 The Twitter account gradually began tweeting messages from politicians, media organizations, and advocacy groups with opposing political views. We tracked whether people paid attention by asking them questions about these messages.

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      4. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        4/8 Instead of reducing political polarization, our intervention INCREASED it. Republicans who followed our bots became substantially more conservative. Democrats became slightly more liberal, but this effect was not statistically significant.pic.twitter.com/fuDHIbYL7w

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      5. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        5/8 We think this happened because people experience cognitive dissonance when they are exposed to opposing views and begin to think about all the different reasons why they disagree with them, leaving them with even more reasons to reject opposing views.

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      6. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        6/8 Our study DOES NOT bringing Democrats and Republicans into conversation with each other is inherently doomed. Studies tell us intergroup contact is only effective if it is mostly positive and especially when people are cooperating to solve shared problems (i.e. not Twitter)

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      7. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        7/8 But we also can’t move all attempts to reduce political polarization offline. Social media is now the preferred medium for political discussion for too many people, and particularly young people.

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      8. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        8/8 Instead of leaving social media, we should try to fix it. I founded the @polarizationlab @DukeU to develop tools that combine machine learning, network analysis, and natural language processing to help people rewire their social media networks and find common groundpic.twitter.com/GQIObzfEnB

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      2. Matthew Rapaport‏ @quineatal 8 Sep 2018
        Replying to @chris_bail @nytimes

        Interesting study. Not surprised. Good luck with a fix

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      3. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018
        Replying to @quineatal @nytimes

        Thanks!

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      1. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 8 Sep 2018

        Ps thanks to @GuggFellows @CarnegieCorp @RussellSageFdn for funding this and @dukeu @DukeNewsT @ASAnews for promoting our research.

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