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Stat 3 — Your Political Opinion Probably Isn't Yours In 2020 researchers at NYU studied over 2 million Facebook users and found something that should have been front page news everywhere. The algorithm was 70% more likely to recommend content that triggered outrage than content that triggered any o…

Stat 3 — Your Political Opinion Probably Isn't Yours In 2020 researchers at NYU studied over 2 million Facebook users and found something that should have been front page news everywhere. The algorithm was 70% more likely to recommend content that triggered outrage than content that triggered any other emotion. Not because outrage is true. Not because it's important. Because outrage keeps you on the platform longer than anything else. And here's what that means in practice. Every time you open a