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News we like to share : how news sharing on social networks influences voting outcomes

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Pogorelskiy, Kirill and Shum, Matthew (2019) News we like to share : how news sharing on social networks influences voting outcomes. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1199). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

More voters than ever get political news from their friends on social media platforms. Is this bad for democracy? Using context-neutral laboratory experiments, we find that biased (mis)information shared on social networks affects the quality of collective decisions relatively more than does segregation by political preferences on social media. Two features of subject behavior underlie this finding: 1) they share news signals selectively, revealing signals favorable to their candidates more often than unfavorable signals; 2) they naıvely take signals at face value and account for neither the selection in the shared signals nor the differential informativeness of news signals across different sources

Item Type: Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
J Political Science > JC Political theory
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Social media, Social media -- Political aspects, Fake news , Social networks, Voting , Mass media -- Objectivity , Journalism -- Objectivity
Series Name: Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS)
Publisher: University of Warwick. Department of Economics
Place of Publication: Coventry
ISSN: 0083-7350
Official Date: June 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
August 2019Updated
June 2019Published
Number: 1199
Number of Pages: 47
Institution: University of Warwick
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Unpublished
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 14 May 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 15 May 2019
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDUniversity of Warwickhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000741

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