“…Examinations of selective exposure have shown that individuals do tend to expose themselves to information and ideas they agree with more often (Iyengar & Hahn, 2009;Lawrence, Sides, & Farrell, 2010) but they do not tend to avoid information and ideas which are conflicting (Garrett, 2009). Even among partisans in the US, the media diet of Republicans and Democrats is in fact quite similar (Weeks, Ksiazek, & Holbert, 2016). While some have found evidence of echo chambers on Twitter (Barberá, Jost, Nagler, Tucker, & Bonneau, 2015;Conover et al, 2011;Himelboim, McCreery, & Smith, 2013), others have shown that the trend does not persist on Facebook (Bakshy, Messing, & Adamic, 2015;Goel, Mason, & Watts, 2010).…”