Political Science

Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

B. Nyhan, J. Settle, et al.

This study, conducted by the authors listed in the <Authors> tag, analyzes 2020 Facebook data for all active US adult users and shows like-minded sources dominate users' feeds though political content is a small slice. A large field experiment reduced like-minded exposure by about one-third and increased cross-cutting content and civility but produced no detectable changes in polarization or related attitudes.... show more

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