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The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +42
We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…
Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere
Manon Revel, Smitha Milli, Tyler Lu +2
Online comment sections, such as those on news sites or social media, have the potential to foster informal public deliberation, However, this potential is often undermined by the…
Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social Media
Smitha Milli, Micah Carroll, Yike Wang +3
In a pre-registered algorithmic audit, we found that, relative to a reverse-chronological baseline, Twitter's engagement-based ranking algorithm amplifies emotionally charged, out-…