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Increasing social media engagement for right-wing content does not necessarily make the American electorate more right-wing.

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social media Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.

politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

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  1. Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
    Certain folks had the idea that if they could get thousands of likes for people who said rightist shit, that somehow the American electorate would become rightist too. It doesn't work like that.

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