Blue Feed, Red Feed

Grade
9-12
Lesson Duration

From The Wall Street Journal

See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side.

To demonstrate how reality may differ for different Facebook users, The Wall Street Journal created two feeds, one “blue” and the other “red.” If a source appears in the red feed, a majority of the articles shared from the source were classified as “very conservatively aligned” in a large 2015 Facebook study. For the blue feed, a majority of each source’s articles aligned “very liberal.”

Go to: http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/

Source

Wall Street Journal