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cs.SI2026★ 1 cited
The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +41
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…
cs.SI2023★ 1 cited
Optimal Engagement-Diversity Tradeoffs in Social Media
Fabian Baumann, Daniel Halpern, Ariel D. Procaccia +3
Social media platforms are known to optimize user engagement with the help of algorithms. It is widely understood that this practice gives rise to echo chambers\emdash users are ma…