Second, in contrast to the concern that platform products and services would
be associated with a narrowing of news diets where people are only fed more of
the same, in fact most empirical research ﬁnds use of social media and search
engines associated with more diverse news use (Flaxman, Goel, and Rao 2016;
Dubois and Blank 2018; Fletcher and Nielsen 2018a).
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