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
Some important context—this was at the height of the campaign and the sample is by and large young and liberal, the precise demographic most likely to be outraged by the media actor w most visiblity—Trump
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Replying to @SolomonMg
Though it also doesn't look like older people are somehow immune to polarization and a spate of recent studies on their susceptibility to more blatant forms of misinformation. Is it more digital literacy, cohort effect, backlash.. Many of these things are some of everything.
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Replying to @zeynep
Although the misinformation work is only about prevalence—they did not look at potential polarizing effects thereof. Very difficult to study effects of misinformation
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Yeah. You obviously have people seeking it but also algorithms noticing some people seek this stuff & showing them a bit more―one big feedback loop. Otoh have studies back to Festinger et al. (1950) on the importance of mere propinquity so an environment of availability matters.
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