THE ORDER OF WHAT YOU SEE ON SOCIAL MEDIA DETERMINES YOUR POLITICAL POLARIZATION, ACCORDING TO A STUDY
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✍️ Researchers from Stanford University have found that the order in which political messages are displayed on social media platforms affects polarization, regardless of the user's political orientation.
👉 Researchers used a browser extension to intercept and reorder the feed of certain social media platforms in real-time. 👉 The study evaluated how much each content included "undemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity". 👉 The results showed that reordering the content significantly influenced affective polarization. 👉 The study suggests that reordering public posts could reduce the temperature or polarization of social media platforms. 👉 The researchers used a large language model to assign a score to each content. 👉 The study was conducted with 1256 participants, who were randomly assigned to two groups: one with a high-polarized feed and one with a low-polarized feed.
-- #TizianoPiccardi #MichaelBernstein #JenniferAllen #StanfordUniversity #UniversityofNewYork #technology
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