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The feed is not neutral: how a Virginia Tech study exposes the bias baked into social media timelines

A peer-reviewed Virginia Tech study finds that user preference for excitement, not platform curation alone, drives social media feeds toward travel, skydiving and other aspirational content. The result complicates the standard critique of recommendation engines.

Ingrid Solheim · Monexus Science desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·20 Jul 2026·Live on the wire ↗
A peer-reviewed Virginia Tech study finds that user preference for excitement, not platform curation alone, drives social media feeds toward travel, skydiving and other aspirational content.
A peer-reviewed Virginia Tech study finds that user preference for excitement, not platform curation alone, drives social media feeds toward travel, skydiving and other aspirational content. The Guardian / Photography

This publication framed the study as a complication of the standard critique rather than as a vindication of either side; the wire treatment emphasised novelty, while the structural question of who bears responsibility for what users see remains unsettled.

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