Consistent with our findings showing relatively low levels of fake news exposure concentrated among people who already had highly skewed information diets http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/fake-news-2016.pdf … https://twitter.com/ylelkes/status/1020313354248904704 …
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Replying to @BrendanNyhan
I don't get how internet users vs. non-users is the key comparison for this kind of work. The whole information diet of the country has changed due to the Internet. It changed for non-internet users as well. Facebook changed Fox News. Makes it very hard to study neatly, sure...
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Replying to @BrendanNyhan @zeynep
Good point re: equilibrium changes in media landscape. This is an assumption we make clear in intro and conclusion of the paper. However, I think our results help rule out (or at least question) narratives that seem to be prominent regarding direct exposure to online information.
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In order to explain our results, these other factors (spillovers to non-internet users and others mentioned in intro/conclusion) must have been relatively large.
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Replying to @levi_boxell @BrendanNyhan
The key effect isn’t spillover imo—the most important part is ecology shift. I mean, who doesn’t cover his tweets? That alone would be huge. Fox News transformed as a response to Facebook fueled Breitbart. It *is* very hard to capture effects when the whole ecology is shifting.
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Replying to @zeynep @BrendanNyhan
I was using spillovers broadly to encompass effects of the internet on non-internet users (including shifts in the media ecology to the extent that those are driven by the internet).
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Replying to @levi_boxell @BrendanNyhan
Okay. In that case I would argue that they are huge — historic, broad and widespread. Also rapid. But it’s very hard to easily or precisely measure such ecological quakes. Non-internet users are very much affected by them.
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Replying to @zeynep @BrendanNyhan
Agreed, it's hard to measure those and they may be quantitatively large.
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It's a bit like we're all forced to become like historians to analyze our own time. Very challenging measurement-wise but a lot of big stuff happening! Very fast, too.
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