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    3. Few sites linked to in immigration-related tweets explicitly stated a political ideology or ‘anti-establishment’ focus

    Another question around the mix of information providers available on the web today is outward political alignment: the degree to which sources align themselves directly with a particular party or ideological agenda. To help answer this question, researchers examined whether each site in the News Organizations and Other Information Providers categories labeled themselves as conservative […]

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    Sharing the News in a Polarized Congress

    Political divides in the American news landscape do not end with Americans’ preferences for different news sources; rather, they extend to how members of the U.S. Congress communicate with constituents in the digital age.

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    Methodology

    To analyze the news that members of Congress share with their Facebook followers, researchers obtained a complete set of posts created by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and posted on their official pages between Jan. 2, 2015, and July 20, 2017. Researchers used the Facebook Graph API to download the posts. […]

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    Methodology

    This study examines the different types of sources linked to on Twitter about a widely discussed news topic: U.S. immigration. To do this, Pew Research Center researchers analyzed the sites linked to in tweets about U.S. immigration policy and news events that were posted during the first month of the Trump administration (Jan. 20-Feb. 20, […]

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    3. Concerns about the future of people’s well-being

    About half of the people responding in this study were in substantial agreement that the positives of digital life will continue to outweigh the negatives. However, as in all great technological revolutions, digital life has and will continue to have a dark side. Roughly a third of respondents predicted that harms to well-being will outweigh […]

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    4. Intervention ideas to ease problems

    One current public debate centers on whether it is enough to expect people to simply evolve to avoid unhealthy tech habits or whether the only effective solution is for the tech business to evolve different approaches. Nir Eyal advocates in his new book “Indistractible” that people can apply the concepts behind tech addiction – motivation, […]

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    2. Most News Organizations sites linked to on Twitter in posts about immigration were created before the presidential campaign; few were found in external ‘fake news’ lists

    Following the 2016 election, news emerged that some sites were looking to seize public attention by publishing completely “made-up” or misleading information – from inaccurate stories about Pope Francis endorsing Trump to claims that a Washington pizzeria was being used by members of the Clinton campaign for child prostitution to sites that mimic popular news […]

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    Sources Shared on Twitter: A Case Study on Immigration

    An analysis of 9.7 million tweets reveals that news organizations played the largest role in which content was linked to in discussions about immigration compared with other information providers.

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