Piccardi et al. 2025 does not provide robust causal evidence that algorithmic ranking causes population-level affective polarization because
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abstract: Piccardi et al. 2025 does not provide robust causal evidence that algorithmic ranking causes population-level affective polarization because the key effect becomes non-significant under population reweighting.
text: Piccardi et al. 2025 does not provide robust causal evidence that algorithmic ranking causes population-level affective polarization because the key effect becomes non-significant under population reweighting.
date created: 2026-05-09T07:08:41.317Z
date published: 2026-05-09T07:08:41.317Z
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text: Piccardi et al. 2025 does not provide robust causal evidence that algorithmic ranking causes population-level affective polarization because the key effect becomes non-significant under population reweighting.

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text: Piccardi et al. (2025) supplementary reweighting to match the X user population rendered the post-treatment Reduced Exposure effect non-significant, undermining the claim of a robust population-generalizable causal effect.

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text: The study recruited only X users whose feeds normally contained at least 5 percent political content during a high-salience election period, limiting generalizability to the broader US adult population.

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text: The 2024 deactivation experiment with over 35,000 Facebook and Instagram users found effects on affective and issue polarization precisely estimated and close to zero.

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