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Re:A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the w... by ThomPete on Saturday November 11, 2017 @01:40PM (#15677489)
That is in contradiction to my anecdotal evidence and having done my share of research with regards to FB feeds in my line of work.
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Re:A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the w... by AndrewKemendo on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:25PM (#15677674)
Luckily for us, social scientists have done in depth research on this issue and published the results:

http://education.biu.ac.il/files/education/shared/science-20...

Conclusion: People are extremely aligned to viewpoints, reinforced by their friends, however they are less aligned than if they STRICTLY consumed media from their own viewpoint because they have some cross-cutting issues.

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Re:A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the w... by ThomPete on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:13PM (#15677916)
"... our work suggests that individuals are exposed to more cross-cutting discourse in social media than they would be under the digital reality envisioned by some (2, 6). Rather than people browsing only ideologically aligned news sources or opting out of hard news altogether, our work shows that social media expose individuals to at least some ideologically crosscutting viewpoints "
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Re:A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the w... by AndrewKemendo on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:06PM (#15678444)
You seemed to miss the part about more cross-cutting...than envisioned by some (2,6)

Key relative measure there and worth reading into more depth.

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Re:A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the w... by ThomPete on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:08PM (#15678455)
Not missing anything just giving a more nuanced picture than what you seemed to suggest.
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