Exposure to X’s algorithmic feed repeatedly and significantly encourages politically conservative attitudes in ways the chronological feed does not.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

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