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Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

Political Science

Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

M. Mosleh, C. Martel, et al.

Americans are far more likely to connect with copartisans — but is party identity the cause? In a Twitter field experiment, users were roughly three times more likely to follow-back bots whose partisanship matched their own, with no asymmetry between Democrats and Republicans. Research conducted by Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand.... show more
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