Algorithmic selection and supply of political news on Facebook

Garz, Marcel; Szucs, Ferenc

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dc.contributor.author	Garz, Marcel	de
dc.contributor.author	Szucs, Ferenc	de
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-12T09:50:14Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-12T09:50:14Z
dc.date.issued	2023	de
dc.identifier.issn	0167-6245	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/99906
dc.description.abstract	Facebook has been criticized for exposing its users to low-quality and harmful information, including fake news, hate speech, and politically one-sided content. In December 2013 and again in August 2014, the platform updated its news feed algorithm to increase user exposure to quality content of news publishers, while curbing the proliferation of non-informative posts. This paper uses a sample of German newspapers to investigate the conjecture that these modifications raised the incentives to publish quality news stories on the platform, focusing on the number and diversity of news story posts about substantive political issues. Using the newspapers’ print editions as a counterfactual, our results indicate an increase in the amount of substantive political news on Facebook by approximately 30%. This expansion occurred in a politically balanced way, except that the outlets disproportionately increased their Facebook coverage of the formerly underrepresented Linke (Left Party). Consequently, the within-outlet concentration of political viewpoints decreased by about one half of the standard deviation of our concentration indices.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.subject.ddc	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject.ddc	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.other	algorithmic curation; news quality; political knowledge; voting; Long-term Online Tracking, T18 (GLES) (ZA5351); Long-term Online Tracking, T26 (GLES) (ZA5726)	de
dc.title	Algorithmic selection and supply of political news on Facebook	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Information Economics and Policy
dc.source.volume	62	de
dc.publisher.country	NLD	de
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject.classoz	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject.classoz	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject.classoz	Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Facebook	de
dc.subject.thesoz	facebook	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Algorithmus	de
dc.subject.thesoz	algorithm	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Diversität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	diversity	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Soziale Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Nachrichten	de
dc.subject.thesoz	news	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Willensbildung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	formulation of political objectives	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Qualität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	quality	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Desinformation	de
dc.subject.thesoz	disinformation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Falschmeldung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	false report	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-99906-3
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
ssoar.contributor.institution	FDB	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	1-30	de
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2023.101020	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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