The role of the big geographic sort in online news circulation among U.S. Reddit users by Lia Bozarth, Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra, Sanja Šćepanović

“…Upon analysis of more than 8M Reddit comments containing news links spanning four years, from January 2016 to December 2019, we found that Reddit did not work as an ‘hype machine’ for news (as opposed to what previous work reported for other platforms, circulation was not mainly caused by platform-facilitated network effects). …”
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