About the Authors

Pablo Barberá

pablo.barbera@nyu.edu (PB); sgonzalezbailon@asc.upenn.edu (SGB)

Affiliation Center for Data Science, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, United States of America

Ning Wang

Affiliation Mathematical Institute and Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX26GG, United Kingdom

Richard Bonneau

Affiliations Center for Genomics and System Biology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, United States of America, Simons Center for Data Analysis, Simons Foundation, New York, New York, 10010, United States of America

John T. Jost

Affiliations Center for Data Science, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, United States of America, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, United States of America, Department of Politics, New York University, New York, New York, 10012, United States of America

Jonathan Nagler

Affiliation Department of Politics, New York University, New York, New York, 10012, United States of America

Joshua Tucker

Affiliation Department of Politics, New York University, New York, New York, 10012, United States of America

Sandra González-Bailón

pablo.barbera@nyu.edu (PB); sgonzalezbailon@asc.upenn.edu (SGB)

Affiliation Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB SGB. Performed the experiments: PB SGB. Analyzed the data: PB SGB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB NW SGB. Wrote the paper: PB NW RB JJ JN JT SGB.