[dryrun-2026-05-04] Confounding factors—including pre-existing homophily, cable-television exposure, partisan elite polarization, and demogr
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abstract: [dryrun-2026-05-04] Confounding factors—including pre-existing homophily, cable-television exposure, partisan elite polarization, and demographic sorting—do not fully account for the observed growth in affective polarization, leaving room for algorithmic effects.
text: [dryrun-2026-05-04] Confounding factors—including pre-existing homophily, cable-television exposure, partisan elite polarization, and demographic sorting—do not fully account for the observed growth in affective polarization, leaving room for algorithmic effects.
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text: [dryrun-2026-05-04] Confounding factors—including pre-existing homophily, cable-television exposure, partisan elite polarization, and demographic sorting—do not fully account for the observed growth in affective polarization, leaving room for algorithmic effects.

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text: Guess et al. (2023) experimentally removed reshared content from Facebook feeds during the 2020 US election, substantially reducing political-news exposure but finding no detectable polarization effect.

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text: Resharing is the feature most associated with viral spread and algorithmic amplification on Facebook.

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