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Compared to Gentzkow and Shapiro, the five to 20 stories typically judged on these sites represent but a drop of mainstream news outlets’ production.

It seems like there was a study from Stanford, regarding effect on the latest USA ellection: > Gentzkow and Allcott find that the most widely circulated hoaxes were seen by only a small fraction of Americans.

In a recent paper, economists Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer and Matthew Gentzkow investigated how much money they had to pay Facebook users in order to get them to deactivate the Facebook app for one or two months.

As important, Gentzkow and Shapiro [6] show that, after controlling for a newspaper’s audience, the identity of its owner does not affect its slant.1 Two newspapers with the same owner look no more similar in their slant than newspapers with different owners.

>>> As a robustness check, we constructed alternate measures using a list curated by Allcott and Gentzkow (2), who combined multiple sources across the political spectrum (including some used by Silverman) to generate a list of fake news stories specifically debunked by fact-checking organizations.

Gentzkow & Shapiro "What Drives Media Slant" [1] style analysis where they use automated content analysis to measure output on a left-right scale.

From what I remember from the Gentzkow/Shapiro work on media bias, media owners isn't really the source of bias.

Gentzkow, Social media and fake news in the 2016 election.

What data tell us: "In the United States, according to Gentzkow and Shapiro, the chances that two people visiting the same news site have different political views is about 45 percent.

Gentzkow and Shapiro produced the first large-scale test of this hypothesis, which showed that, contrary to the conventional wisdom and regulatory stance, demand is much more influential in shaping content than supply as proxied by ownership.

[1] Boxell, L., Gentzkow, M., & Shapiro, J.

The concern I'm raising is not that, but this: "Thus, as the audience become polarized over matters of politics and public policy, rational media owners stand to gain market share by injecting more rather than less political bias into the news (Gentzkow & Shapiro, 2006).

Gentzkow & Shapiro "What Drives Media Slant" [1] style analysis where they use automated content analysis to measure output on a left-right scale.

What data tell us: "In the United States, according to Gentzkow and Shapiro, the chances that two people visiting the same news site have different political views is about 45 percent.

The concern I'm raising is not that, but this: "Thus, as the audience become polarized over matters of politics and public policy, rational media owners stand to gain market share by injecting more rather than less political bias into the news (Gentzkow & Shapiro, 2006).

From what I remember from the Gentzkow/Shapiro work on media bias, media owners isn't really the source of bias.

Gentzkow, Social media and fake news in the 2016 election.

Gentzkow and Shapiro produced the first large-scale test of this hypothesis, which showed that, contrary to the conventional wisdom and regulatory stance, demand is much more influential in shaping content than supply as proxied by ownership.