grahamster00
grahamster00 t1_ivlggqi wrote
Reply to Examining 100,000 crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2019, researchers found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates by giuliomagnifico
I'd imagine this has something to do with sampling bias; the Facebook users tend to be spread out across the country while crime, especially violent crime, in the US tends to be centered in urban areas, so using "Local arrest rates" as opposed to "National arrest rates" when you're examining national crime stories is a bit misleading, no?
grahamster00 t1_j4mpdv0 wrote
Reply to Among social media users, YouTube was considered to be the least civil, followed by Facebook. Twitter and TikTok ranked in the middle. Reddit and Instagram were considered the most civil. (N = 1,105; N = 1,035) by RepleteDivide
Important to note this is a study regarding perceived incivility, the data derives from interviews and questionnaires, per the methodology:
>... After that, participants, in random order, were asked only about the specific social media platforms they indicated using, with questions covering frequency of use, different types of use, social network characteristics, and perceptions of uncivil behaviors on the platform by both self and others.
Perhaps this says more about what people of different platforms would call "incivil" and the normalization of certain behaviors as "civil" than it does anything else.