Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization Science

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We recruited participants through two online platforms, CloudResearch and Bovitz, targeting US residents over 18 years old who self-identified as either Republican or Democrat and were active users of X (SM section S1.1). Qualified individuals were invited to complete a screening task, which included installing a browser extension that analyzed their X feed. To ensure the interventions could have a meaningful impact on participants' feeds, only those with at least 5% of posts related to politics or social issues were invited to participate. Figure S1 summarizes the recruitment funnel, including the number of individuals at each stage of the process. Participants were not instructed to use X in any particular way, but they received daily reminders if they had not used the platform that day.