Maybe, maybe not but that design cannot measure that question. You also cannot measure the polarization question like that imo to be honest, because on what planet is, say, Fox news outside of the algorithmic public sphere? It orients itself to compete with Breitbart on Facebook.
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@zeynep here. While we need more studies, commend the authors etc and respectfully: this study doesn't measure what it proports to and you simply can't address this question without experiments. And... -
The weight of the experimental evidence on this goes in the opposite direction, both in direct experiments on political polarization and related work on algorithmic narrowing of consumption. The best experimental work to my knowledge remains
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