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Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook

Eytan Bakshy ¹

Solomon Messing ¹

Lada A. Adamic ^{1, 2}

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Facebook, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. |

School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2015-06-05

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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CiteScore: 48.4

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ISSN: 00368075, 10959203

DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa1160

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PubMed ID: 25953820

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Abstract

Not getting all sides of the news?

People are increasingly turning away from mass media to social media as a way of learning news and civic information. Bakshy et al. examined the news that millions of Facebook users' peers shared, what information these users were presented with, and what they ultimately consumed (see the Perspective by Lazer). Friends shared substantially less cross-cutting news from sources aligned with an opposing ideology. People encountered roughly 15% less cross-cutting content in news feeds due to algorithmic ranking and clicked through to 70% less of this cross-cutting content. Within the domain of political news encountered in social media, selective exposure appears to drive attention.

Science , this issue p. 1130 ; see also p. 1090

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1126/science.aaa1160

UR - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1160

TI - Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook

T2 - Science

AU - Bakshy, Eytan

AU - Messing, Solomon

AU - Adamic, Lada A.

PY - 2015

DA - 2015/06/05

PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

SP - 1130-1132

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VL - 348

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@article{2015_Bakshy,

author = {Eytan Bakshy and Solomon Messing and Lada A. Adamic},

title = {Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook},

journal = {Science},

year = {2015},

volume = {348},

publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},

month = {jun},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1160},

number = {6239},

pages = {1130--1132},

doi = {10.1126/science.aaa1160}

}

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Bakshy, Eytan, et al. “Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook.” Science, vol. 348, no. 6239, Jun. 2015, pp. 1130-1132. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1160.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Science

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

10.416

CiteScore

48.4

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45.8

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00368075 (Print)

10959203 (Electronic)