Down-ranking polarizing content lowers emotional temperature on social media – new research
- Written by Tiziano Piccardi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Social media posts that stoke division don't have to top your feed.Gama5/iStock via Getty ImagesReducing the visibility of polarizing content in social media feeds can measurably lower partisan animosity. To come up with this finding, my colleagues and I developed a method that let us alter the ranking of people’s feeds, previously something...