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Yes but that's not what's going on on Facebook. You aren't isolated like that. It's an oversimplification of how the algorithm actually works as there are plen
by ThomPete 9y ago
Yes but that's not what's going on on Facebook. You aren't isolated like that.
It's an oversimplification of how the algorithm actually works as there are plenty of non-political interestest involved too.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoRespectfully disagree from my anecdotal evidence. Someone sharing politics you don’t like? Unfollow or unfriend, leaving content in your feed that you want to see, reinforcing your beliefs regardless of the truth/facts.
- ThomPete 9y agoThat is in contradiction to my anecdotal evidence and having done my share of research with regards to FB feeds in my line of work.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoLuckily for us, social scientists have done in depth research on this issue and published the results: http://education.biu.ac.il/files/education/shared/science-2015-bakshy-1130-2.pdf http://education.biu.ac.il/files/education/shared/science-20... Conclusion: People are extremely aligned to viewpoints, reinforced by their friends, however they are less aligned than if they STRICTLY consumed media from their own viewpoint because they have some cross-cutting issues.
- ThomPete 9y ago"... our work suggests that individuals are exposed to more cross-cutting discourse in social media than they would be under the digital reality envisioned by some (2, 6). Rather than people browsing only ideologically aligned news sources or opting out of hard news altogether, our work shows that social media expose individuals to at least some ideologically crosscutting viewpoints "
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoYou seemed to miss the part about more cross-cutting...than envisioned by some (2,6) Key relative measure there and worth reading into more depth.
- ThomPete 9y agoNot missing anything just giving a more nuanced picture than what you seemed to suggest.