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Down-ranking polarizing content lowers emotional temperature on social media – new research

  • Written by Tiziano Piccardi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Down-ranking polarizing content lowers emotional temperature on social media – new researchSocial media posts that stoke division don't have to top your feed.Gama5/iStock via Getty Images

Reducing the visibility of polarizing content in social media feeds can measurably lower partisan animosity. To come up with this finding, my colleagues and I developed a method that let us alter the ranking of people’s feeds, previously something...

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