The study shows that the media language influences public debates on social media, creating divisive echo chambers. Key Facts:The study analyzed nearly 300 billion words spoken on CNN and Fox News broadcasts and nearly 133,000 tweets related to six politically contentious topics from 2010 to 2020. Different audiences spend their media time in partisan echo chambers that reinforce their existing views, the researchers found. “Same Words, Different Meanings: Semantic Polarization in Broadcast MediaLanguage Forecasts Polarity in Online Public Discourse” by Eugenia Rho et al. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (PDF)

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