Note: This segment is a rebroadcast from September 5, 2018.
A team of researchers led by Duke University sociologist ran an experiment to expose a group of Twitter users to political views that were in opposition to their own. was aimed at gauging whether stepping out of a social media silo and reading about political perspectives from a broader ideological spectrum helped shift people鈥檚 own political leanings.
The results found that Democrats who were exposed to Republican content tended to veer further left (though not by a statistically significant degree) and Republicans who were exposed to Democratic content veered further right. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Bail about the study published in .
