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The echo chamber effect on social media.


ABSTRACT: Social media may limit the exposure to diverse perspectives and favor the formation of groups of like-minded users framing and reinforcing a shared narrative, that is, echo chambers. However, the interaction paradigms among users and feed algorithms greatly vary across social media platforms. This paper explores the key differences between the main social media platforms and how they are likely to influence information spreading and echo chambers' formation. We perform a comparative analysis of more than 100 million pieces of content concerning several controversial topics (e.g., gun control, vaccination, abortion) from Gab, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. We quantify echo chambers over social media by two main ingredients: 1) homophily in the interaction networks and 2) bias in the information diffusion toward like-minded peers. Our results show that the aggregation of users in homophilic clusters dominate online interactions on Facebook and Twitter. We conclude the paper by directly comparing news consumption on Facebook and Reddit, finding higher segregation on Facebook.

SUBMITTER: Cinelli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7936330 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The echo chamber effect on social media.

Cinelli Matteo M   De Francisci Morales Gianmarco G   Galeazzi Alessandro A   Quattrociocchi Walter W   Starnini Michele M  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20210301 9


Social media may limit the exposure to diverse perspectives and favor the formation of groups of like-minded users framing and reinforcing a shared narrative, that is, echo chambers. However, the interaction paradigms among users and feed algorithms greatly vary across social media platforms. This paper explores the key differences between the main social media platforms and how they are likely to influence information spreading and echo chambers' formation. We perform a comparative analysis of  ...[more]

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