News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public

Eady, Gregory; Bonneau, Richard; Tucker, Joshua A.; Nagler, Jonathan

doi:10.31219/osf.io/ch8gj

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“…We identified Twitter users who had retweeted MSNBC or Fox News posts, collected up to their last 3,200 tweets, and classified each user’s partisanship based on the content they shared from left- versus right-leaning websites ( 15 ) (strength of partisanship was measured as the absolute value of partisanship score). We removed users with more than 15,000 followers or for whom the partisanship estimator was unable to return a score and then constructed a politically balanced set of users to form the subject pool for our experiment.…”

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Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

Mosleh

Martel

Eckles

et al. 2021

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Americans are much more likely to be socially connected to copartisans, both in daily life and on social media. However, this observation does not necessarily mean that shared partisanship per se drives social tie formation, because partisanship is confounded with many other factors. Here, we test the causal effect of shared partisanship on the formation of social ties in a field experiment on Twitter. We created bot accounts that self-identified as people who favored the Democratic or Republican party and that varied in the strength of that identification. We then randomly assigned 842 Twitter users to be followed by one of our accounts. Users were roughly three times more likely to reciprocally follow-back bots whose partisanship matched their own, and this was true regardless of the bot’s strength of identification. Interestingly, there was no partisan asymmetry in this preferential follow-back behavior: Democrats and Republicans alike were much more likely to reciprocate follows from copartisans. These results demonstrate a strong causal effect of shared partisanship on the formation of social ties in an ecologically valid field setting and have important implications for political psychology, social media, and the politically polarized state of the American public.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

Mosleh

Martel

Eckles

et al. 2021

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…We start from the observation that these metadata and watch histories are only proxies for the underlying concepts of interest: user i's utility for watching a specific video j, or U i (v j ). In line with existing work (Barberá 2013;Eady et al 2019), we use a random utility model to formalize U i (v j ) as a function of the user's ideal point α i and the content of the video a j . Formally,…”

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Election Fraud, YouTube, and Public Perception of the Legitimacy of President Biden

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Brown

Lai

et al. 2022

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Skepticism about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the United States led to a historic attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 and represents one of the greatest challenges to America's democratic institutions in over a century. Narratives of fraud and conspiracy theories proliferated over the fall of 2020, finding fertile ground across online social networks, although little is know about the extent and drivers of this spread. In this article, we show that users who were more skeptical of the election's legitimacy were more likely to be recommended content that featured narratives about the legitimacy of the election. Our findings underscore the tension between an "effective" recommendation system that provides users with the content they want, and a dangerous mechanism by which misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracies can find their way to those most likely to believe them.

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“…To serve as a comparison group, we used a list of 219 channels associated with "mainstream" media accounts described in a working paper by Eady et al (2019). Although it has not yet been published, the project aims to "define the population of US national online news sources" on YouTube (per Eady).…”

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Right-Wing YouTube: A Supply and Demand Perspective

Munger

Phillips

2020

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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YouTube is the most used social network in the United States and the only major platform that is more popular among right-leaning users. We propose the “Supply and Demand” framework for analyzing politics on YouTube, with an eye toward understanding dynamics among right-wing video producers and consumers. We discuss a number of novel technological affordances of YouTube as a platform and as a collection of videos, and how each might drive supply of or demand for extreme content. We then provide large-scale longitudinal descriptive information about the supply of and demand for conservative political content on YouTube. We demonstrate that viewership of far-right videos peaked in 2017.

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News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public

Cited by 22 publications

References 60 publications

Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

Election Fraud, YouTube, and Public Perception of the Legitimacy of President Biden

Right-Wing YouTube: A Supply and Demand Perspective

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