Social media are at the center of countless debates on polarization, misinformation, and even the state of democracy in … a detrimental effect in terms of misinformation – crowding-out the truth – and polarization. Besides increasing actual … to social interaction in its ranking algorithm – we find an increase in political polarization and ideological extremism …

Social media are at the center of countless debates on polarization, misinformation, and even the state of democracy in … a detrimental effect in terms of misinformation---crowding-out the truth---and polarization. Besides increasing actual … given to social interaction in its ranking algorithm---we find an increase in political polarization and ideological …

, namely popularity and personalization parameters, on measures of platform engagement, misinformation and polarization. The … personalized content may increase engagement on the social media platform, while at the same time increasing misinformation and …/or polarization. By exploiting Facebook’s 2018 “Meaningful Social Interactions” algorithmic ranking update, we also provide direct …

towards the diffusion of misinformation (e.g., "fake news"), since lower ex-ante accuracy of content of minority websites can …