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Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers (www.nbcnews.com)
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The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.

July 27, 2023, 8:00 PM CEST By Brandy Zadrozny

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Who said a chronological feed would reduce polarization? I was under the impression everyone wants a reverse chronological feed so they can see what their friends have been up to without having to scroll through a bunch of stupid content-farm-level posts and piece together the actual timeline of events from context clues.