Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 2021
Volume: 111
Issue: 3
Pages: 831-70

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Ro'ee Levy (Tel Aviv University)

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Abstract

Does the consumption of ideologically congruent news on social media exacerbate polarization? I estimate the effects of social media news exposure by conducting a large field experiment

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repec:aea:aecrev:v:111:y:2021:i:3:p:831-70
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2026-01-25