The echo-chamber mechanism through which algorithmic curation was hypothesized to drive affective polarization is experimentally unsupported
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abstract: The echo-chamber mechanism through which algorithmic curation was hypothesized to drive affective polarization is experimentally unsupported, though the alternative out-group animosity amplification pathway remains partially untested by the Meta-academic experiments.
text: The echo-chamber mechanism through which algorithmic curation was hypothesized to drive affective polarization is experimentally unsupported, though the alternative out-group animosity amplification pathway remains partially untested by the Meta-academic experiments.
date created: 2026-05-09T07:09:29.610Z
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text: The echo-chamber mechanism through which algorithmic curation was hypothesized to drive affective polarization is experimentally unsupported, though the alternative out-group animosity amplification pathway remains partially untested by the Meta-academic experiments.

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text: Nyhan et al. (2023) experimentally reduced exposure to like-minded sources on Facebook for three months during the 2020 US election, directly targeting the echo-chamber mechanism hypothesized to drive affective polarization.

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text: The intervention did not reduce affective polarization, ideological extremity, or candidate evaluations despite successfully altering the content mix.

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