Janne M. KorhonenMar 10
A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested. Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%! yle.fi/a/74-20214134
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The graph shows the political content of social media 18-24-year olds see, first in three country average (58% right wing, 16% center, 26% left wing) and then in Finland (67% right wing, 10% center, 23% left wing). The study concludes that social media business models incentivize this.
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Show threadJanne M. KorhonenMar 10
The whole study can be read here - it's in English. www.sitra.fi/en/publicati...

Algorithms and democracy - Sit...
Algorithms and democracy - Sitra

Download Publication details Title Algorithms and democracy Writers Ilkka Räsänen, Kristo Lehtonen, Bálint Dercsényi, Laurence Fenn, Sujatha Krishnan-Barman, Cindia Li Publisher Sitra Year of publication 2026 Outlook 50 ISBN (pdf) 978-952-347-457-4 ISSN (pdf) 1796-7112 Publication number 256 Topic Algorithms and democracy Background material Technical Appendix by BIT pdf 8 MB

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Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDMar 10
@jmkorhonen.fi Noise was always easier to generate than signal.