DP20729 The Polarization Paradox: Why More Connections Can Divide Us
Government
We develop a simple model of \emph{content filtering}-the tendency of individuals to selectively forward information that aligns with their ideological preference-to study how network structure shapes the distribution of political content. In our framework, individuals and content are horizontally differentiated into three types (left, middle, right). We show that content filtering can amplify the middle or the extremes and may result in only centrist content (full moderation) or only extreme
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