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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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