Scientific American
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Instead politically polarized Google users tend to silo themselves by clicking on links to partisan news sites.
The researchers collected data from hundreds of Google users over the three months leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterm election and the nine months before the 2020 presidential election.
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The researchers noticed unreliable or downright misleading news sources still popped up in the results.
Users age 65 and older were subject to more right-leaning links in their Google search results.
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