This is a randomized experiment so important to the notion that Facebook (likely also Twitter and YouTube) causally fuel polarization. (Repost, typo, where’s my edit button, etc.)https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1090682557761576960 …
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Replying to @zeynep @davidlazer
And political knowledge. Perhaps in current environment, political knowledge increases polarization?
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Replying to @deaneckles @davidlazer
I think key dynamic here is experiencing political knowledge in a socially-embedded setting that encourages in-group/out-group dynamics. Every part of this exists before but measurably heightened by the way platforms are organized—absorbing information but more tribalistically.
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