Weekly Ideological Segregation of the Audience of Facebook Posts with Civic News Domains and URLs
2023
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Description

This dataset measures the ideological segregation index and favorability score of the potential, exposed and engaged audience of posts with links to domains and URLs classified as civic news. The dataset contains domain- and URL-level metrics from Facebook activity data for adult U.S. monthly active users, aggregated weekly over the study period. Includes ideological segregation index, favorability score, content attributes, user attributes.

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Title
Weekly Ideological Segregation of the Audience of Facebook Posts with Civic News Domains and URLs
Creator
Meta Platforms, Inc. Data Collector
Subject
Issued Date
2023-07-27
Version
v1
Alternate Identifiers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3886/hcm6-rk59
Status
Published
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Funding Information
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Citation
Meta Platforms, Inc. Weekly Ideological Segregation of the Audience of Facebook Posts with Civic News Domains and URLs. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-07-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/hcm6-rk59
Record Appears in
U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study
Datasets
Facebook
Time Period
2020-09-01, 2021-02-01
Geographic Coverage
United States
Platform
Facebook
Collection Modes
user behavior tracking
Data Formats
web platform data
Design
See the codebook for details on the experimental design.
Variables
Download the data dictionary for variables present in this dataset.
Additional Notes
The U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study (US 2020 FIES) is a partnership between Meta and academic researchers to understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes and behaviors during the US 2020 election.
Related Resources
Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook, Journal Article, DOI, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade7138
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