Graphs about the evolution of ideological polarization and the dissemination of low-quality news on Facebook (IMAGE)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona

Graphs about the evolution of ideological polarization and the dissemination of low-quality news on Facebook

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The upper figure shows the evolution of the ideological gap between conservatives and liberals, calculated based on the difference between the average ideology of the content consumed by each of these groups. The lower figure shows the evolution of the proportion of interactions with posts from low-quality domains in relation to the total number of interactions.

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