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The Effect of Social Networks on Political Polarization
The US 2020 Facebook and Instagram election study attempted to figure out whether this was all true. Conservative people or people who identify as conservative see more political news links than liberal identifying people. Algorithms are extremely influential, but popular proposals to change algorithms don't seem like they would change political attitudes. Neither removing the re-shares or using chronological feeds significantly changed anybody's polarization or political attitudes.
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