Similar to partisan selective exposure, people prefer algorithm-produced content that shows them content that already aligns with their thoughts and opinions and continues to reinforce them.

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Partisan selective exposure is the concept that people seek out news sources that align with their political views and will support or match their already existing interests and attitudes. Partisan Selective Exposure seeks to explain how people's opinions have become so polarized even with the increased amount of information available to the public due to technology.

Partisan Selective Exposure

Zhao, W. (2019). Misinformation correction across social media platforms. 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI). https://doi.org/10.1109/csci49370.2019.00256 

Misinformation Correction across Social Media Platforms

Automation Bias

When individuals select themselves into a group, causing bias. 

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