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A large-scale field intervention experiment on 23,377 US Facebook users during the 2020 presidential election shows that reducing exposure to content from like-minded social media sources has no measurable effect on political polarization or other political attitudes and beliefs.
A landmark collaboration shows that Facebook’s news feed filters partisan political news to users with the same views. But changing the feed algorithm to reduce exposure to like-minded content does not reduce political polarization.
A vast telescope buried beneath Antarctica has captured high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic Centre, ushering in a new era for observing the Universe.
Facebook and Instagram users’ political views remain steady even after short-term changes to platforms’ algorithms during the 2020 US presidential election.
An atomic-bomb historian’s thoughts about how the film portrays Robert Oppenheimer’s life and work. Plus, a Neolithic community that spanned seven generations, and a crucial ocean current could collapse this century.
