Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers
The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.
July 27, 2023, 8:00 PM CEST By Brandy Zadrozny
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Who said a chronological feed would reduce polarization? I was under the impression everyone wants a reverse chronological feed so they can see what their friends have been up to without having to scroll through a bunch of stupid content-farm-level posts and piece together the actual timeline of events from context clues.
We will find monstrosities in there. Doesn’t matter when they got what they wanted