… Conservatives have long alleged that Twitter and Facebook have a liberal bias, complaining that Twitter mutes conservatives on its platform. But our new study of the U.S. Twitter landscape doesn’t bear this out. Instead, we found that partisan political accounts are more of a sideshow on Twitter in America.
We wanted to understand whether the content that Americans see on Twitter is ideologically biased. What people see on their timeline or feed depends on the users they follow. So we set about identifying the Twitter accounts that most Americans are following. CONT.
Subhayan Mukerjee, Kokil Jaidka & Yphtach Lelkes, Monkey Cage