Germain Gauthier

It Only Takes A Few Weeks On X To Become More Right Wing, Study Shows "This naturally raises the question of what years of exposure might do," the lead researcher said.

Wrote about an unsettling new study on X.

“Concepts like partisan identity are unlikely to move over such short timeframes but what’s striking is that opinions on current politics did shift in just a few weeks,” Gauthier said. “That naturally raises the question of what years of exposure might do”

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Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...