David Ingram covers tech for NBC News.
Facebook and Instagram may not have quite the impact on people’s politics as some critics have feared. A study published Monday by researchers at Stanford University, Meta and other institutions found that a subset of 35,000 people who took breaks from Facebook and Instagram for six weeks before the 2020 presidential election didn’t significantly change their politics by the time the election came around.
“If we’re worried about those things, trying to control what people see on social media and whether they’re on social media may not be the most important lever,” he said in an interview. On issues such as immigration, mask requirements and policing, those who deactivated Facebook and Instagram remained polarized. But Gentzkow also said the study isn’t nearly the final word on the subject, because it was limited to the impact of Facebook and Instagram in a relatively narrow six-week time frame.
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