Spiegel: Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft: Radikal dank Facebook

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/filterblase-radikalisierung-auf-facebook-a-1073450.html

"Scheint es nur so, als ob derzeit immer mehr Menschen immer radikalere Positionen vertreten - oder ist es wirklich so? Aktuelle Studien legen nahe: Das Netz fördert gesellschaftliche Extreme."

Zitiert Studie:

Debunking in a World of Tribes

"Here, we examine the effectiveness of debunking through a quantitative analysis of 54 million users over a time span of five years (Jan 2010, Dec 2014). In particular, we compare how users interact with proven (scientific) and unsubstantiated (conspiracy-like) information on Facebook in the US. Our findings confirm the existence of echo chambers where users interact primarily with either conspiracy-like or scientific pages. Both groups interact similarly with the information within their echo chamber. We examine 47,780 debunking posts and find that attempts at debunking are largely ineffective. For one, only a small fraction of usual consumers of unsubstantiated information interact with the posts. Furthermore, we show that those few are often the most committed conspiracy users and rather than internalizing debunking information, they often react to it negatively. Indeed, after interacting with debunking posts, users retain, or even increase, their engagement within the conspiracy echo chamber."

http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04267

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.04267v1.pdf

Filterblase im Internet: Facebook-Forscher sprechen Facebook frei

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/facebook-studie-forscher-zweifeln-an-filterblase-a-1032697.html