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SUBMITTER: Bail CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6140520 | biostudies-other | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bail Christopher A CA Argyle Lisa P LP Brown Taylor W TW Bumpus John P JP Chen Haohan H Hunzaker M B Fallin MBF Lee Jaemin J Mann Marcus M Merhout Friedolin F Volfovsky Alexander A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180828 37
There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating "echo chambers" that insulate people from opposing views about current events. We surveyed a large sample of Democrats and Republicans who visit Twitter at least three times each week about a range of social policy issues. One week later, we randomly assigned respondents to a treatment condition in which they were offered financial incentives to follow a Twitter bot for 1 month that exposed them to ...[more]