Nathaniel Persily > Quotes

“The sharing of fake news on Twitter reflects an extreme power-law pattern in which 0.1 percent of users in their sample shared 80 percent of the content.”
― Nathaniel Persily, Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform

“In his classic study on the origins of public opinion, Zaller (1992) argues that politically aware individuals are more receptive to pro-attitudinal messages. Similarly, Taber and Lodge (2006) find that those with highest levels of political sophistication are more likely to uncritically accept supporting arguments and reject counter-attitudinal arguments, leading to attitude polarization;”
― Nathaniel Persily, Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform