The claim that US-specific factors could produce US-specific algorithmic polarization effects is speculative and lacks empirical support in
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abstract: The claim that US-specific factors could produce US-specific algorithmic polarization effects is speculative and lacks empirical support in the bound corpus.
text: The claim that US-specific factors could produce US-specific algorithmic polarization effects is speculative and lacks empirical support in the bound corpus.
date created: 2026-05-04T21:20:46.100Z
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text: The claim that US-specific factors could produce US-specific algorithmic polarization effects is speculative and lacks empirical support in the bound corpus.

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text: Boxell et al. (2024) found that affective polarization fell in many developed democracies with similar internet and social media diffusion to the US, including countries using the same platforms with similar algorithmic systems.

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text: The framing requires causal evidence with credible identification, not post-hoc speculation about unmeasured interaction effects between algorithms and country-specific factors.

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