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SUMMARY:Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Luca Braghieri\, “Article-Level Slant
  and Polarization in News Consumption on Social Media“
DESCRIPTION:Luca Braghieri\, Sarah Eichmeyer\, Ro’ee Levy\, Markus Mobius
 \, Jacob Steinhardt\, and Ruiqi Zhong:\n“Article-Level Slant and Polariz
 ation in News Consumption on Social Media”\n\nThere is widespread concer
 n that the social media ecosystem drives users to engage with like-minded 
 news articles\, thereby fostering polarization in news consumption. Method
 ological limitations in estimating slant at the article level have made ev
 aluating these claims difficult. We use data on the near universe (ca. 1 
 million) of hard news articles published online by the top 100 U.S. news o
 utlets in 2019\, together with recent advances in natural language process
 ing\, to obtain a content-based measure of slant at the article level. Ou
 r main finding is that the degree of polarization in news consumption on s
 ocial media is arguably high. Specifically\, the mean slant difference bet
 ween articles consumed by conservative and liberal users on Facebook is 1.
 5 times the ideological distance between the average New York Times and F
 oxnews.com article. We also show that: i) The majority (65%) of the varia
 nce in slant across articles arises within outlets\, rather than across ou
 tlets\, highlighting the importance of measuring slant at the article rath
 er than the outlet level. ii) Most news produced is centrist\, but the ta
 ils of the slant distribution are thick\, and there is substantial variati
 on in slant across news type and topic. iii) Extreme content is much more
  likely to be shared widely on Facebook than moderate content. iv) There 
 is substantial pro-attitudinal news consumption on Facebook even within th
 e same outlet. v) Polarization in news exposure can account for the major
 ity of polarization in news consumption on Facebook.\n\nhttps://drive.goog
 le.com/file/d/1JAZ8cJF-gceb4W2kZWNiDqi1sfMU9FEx/view
LOCATION:IZA - Institute of Labor Economics\, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9\
 , 53113 Bonn\, Germany
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DTSTAMP:20250122T013242Z
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