that

citizens actively avoid counter-attitudinal

Studies of individual-level online news consumption also offer scarce
information.
evidence
Gentzkow and Shapiro (2011) showed that ideological segregation in the
news sites that people regularly visit is low in absolute terms and not
becoming higher over time. Similarly, Guess (2016) found high levels of
overlap in news consumption: A majority of people mostly rely on centrist
websites, and those who visit the most partisan websites are a minority that
tends to be active news consumers and thus also visit many other sites.

refers

to as

(2010)
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