Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Neutral bots probe political bias on social media

  • Wen Chen,
  • Diogo Pacheco,
  • Kai-Cheng Yang,
  • Filippo Menczer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25738-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends strongly on the political leaning of early Twitter connections.