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The TWON project creates digital twins of online social networks to study the impact of design choices on user behavior and opinion polarization. By combining empirical data and simulations, it aims to provide insights for improving platform design and promoting healthier public discourse.
Experts, scholars, and leading political decision-makers warn that Online Social Networks (OSNs) have transformed public debate in harmful ways.
Personalization algorithms, it has been argued, create so-called filter bubbles and echo chambers where users’ opinions are reinforced, amplifying processes of opinion polarisation.
Despite frequent calls for interventions to minimize such undesired effects, there is no agreed-upon method for estimating the effects of changing the parameters of the desi…
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
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Germany, Trier
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
Germany, Karlsruhe
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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