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In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed

While Facebook’s controls were in place, we found that links to traditional news sites were present in almost all election-related posts that appeared on our Georgia panelists’ feeds. After Dec. 16, however, when Facebook flipped the switch to turn on political advertising for the Georgia election, we noticed that partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites, replacing a significant proportion of mentions of the election in our users’ feeds.

See the full story here: https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/01/05/in-georgia-facebooks-changes-brought-back-a-partisan-news-feed?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpjelptSmlNelZrTkRWaSIsInQiOiJ6anB1c092dkdTY1JNRlhBaUZaQWRLREF1dFhjdlpaQUYyQ0dcLzJVWlUyQnhDSUM3eStoSTI3c05ZT1lxQWR3QW10dmZxVGNcL0FSQU9BUENFcSt5S0kxeDA2bDV5SmVtNE1pK3A3WFVvTk55THM3WW9Rd2l3Z1RTXC9ZckJuYjVsMSJ9

See the full story here: https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/01/05/in-georgia-facebooks-changes-brought-back-a-partisan-news-feed?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpjelptSmlNelZrTkRWaSIsInQiOiJ6anB1c092dkdTY1JNRlhBaUZaQWRLREF1dFhjdlpaQUYyQ0dcLzJVWlUyQnhDSUM3eStoSTI3c05ZT1lxQWR3QW10dmZxVGNcL0FSQU9BUENFcSt5S0kxeDA2bDV5SmVtNE1pK3A3WFVvTk55THM3WW9Rd2l3Z1RTXC9ZckJuYjVsMSJ9

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