Sorting the News: How Ranking by Popularity Polarizes Our Politics

• In Event: Partisan Media and Polarization

Brief Overview

We present results of an experiment in which subjects we exposed to a Facebook-like feed of news that they could “like”, and manipulate whether articles are sorted randomly or are skewed towards a certain political party.

Authors

• Yotam Shmargad, University of Arizona

• Samara Mani Klar, University of Arizona