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News-sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization
Tomas Cicchini, Sofia Morena del Pozo, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Pablo Balenzuela
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News sharing on social networks reveals how information disseminates among users. This process, constrained by user preferences and social ties, plays a key role in the formation of public opinion. In this work we study news sharing of main Argentinian media outlets in Twitter, using bipartite news-user networks, in order to understand if the emergence of affinity groups is driven by the underlying political polarization. We compare the results between an electoral and non-electoral year and between a set of politically active users and a control group. We found that users' behavior produces well differentiated communities of news articles identified by a unique distribution of media outlets in all analyzed datasets. In particular, these communities split into two groups which reflect the dominant ideological polarization in Argentina. We also found that users form two well differentiated groups identified by their preferences in media outlets consumption. These two groups of media outlets display a bias towards the two main political parties that rule the political life in Argentina. These results reveal consistently that ideological polarization is the main driving force shaping the Argentinian news sharing in Twitter.
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