Is Facebook Keeping You In a Political Bubble?

sciencehabit writes: Does Facebook make it harder for people with different political views to get along? Political scientists have long wondered whether the social network's news feed selectively serves up ideologically charged news while filtering out content from different camps. Now, a study by Facebook's in-house social scientists finds that this does happen, though the effect seems to be very small. "There's a growing concern that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter allow us to more precisely engineer our informational environments than ever before, so we only get info that's consistent with our prior beliefs," says David Lazer, a political and computer scientist who authored a commentary on the paper.

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Re:No, but your own choices are.

[Attila Dimedici]

No, the liberal stance is that too much income inequality is bad, unless the people with all the money are liberals, in which case it is good. Of course, the thing they never point out is that income inequality actually increases when liberals control the levers of power.