Neutral bots probe political bias on social media

Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends strongly on the political leaning of early Twitter c...

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Autores principales: Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8e1dad961559419599c3fff50e7f2abf
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Sumario:Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends strongly on the political leaning of early Twitter connections.