New research adds a twist — of course, a disputed twist — to the long argument over social media and politics.
by the GOP, and concerns mounting about AI deepfakes in the 2024 election, the messy fight over social media’s role in politics took another turn Thursday with new research suggesting that Facebook is not making Americans more partisan.
The studies released Thursday tried to tease out the influence of particular factors, such as Facebook’s algorithm for serving up content to users. Two studies published in the journal Science that examined the effects of Facebook’s algorithm and reshare feature during the fall of 2020 found that both features increased user engagement — but neither affected people’s existing political attitudes or polarization.
Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive who leaked internal company files in 2021, called the studies “badly designed” and suggested the three-month study period may be too short to capture changes in users’ views. A fourth study, also published in Science, found that a cluster of news sources consumed by conservatives produced most of the misinformation flagged by the platform’s third-party fact-checking system.
He called for governments to mandate that social media companies share data so that researchers are not dependent on platforms’ cooperation in order to study their practices.
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