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text: The Bakshy et al. study found that individual choice was the larger filter reducing cross-cutting exposure, with algorithmic effects being smaller than user self-selection.

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text: Bakshy et al. (2015) found that both algorithmic ranking and individual choice reduce cross-cutting exposure, but user choice was the larger filter.

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