The study found that people who use search engines, social media, and aggregators to access news can actually have more diverse information diets. Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Liverpool analyzed web tracking data on around 3,000 UK news users. The team tracked every visit from a desktop or laptop to 21 of the most popular UK news websites over a one-month period. They also recorded the URL that preceded each visit to infer how the site was accessed. They grouped these visits into three categories: They then combined measures of diversity and media outlet slants to compare the variety of news in each category. They found that people who used search engines, social media, and aggregators to access news received a more diverse mix of information.  The results also showed older people have less diverse news repertoires than younger people, and that men have less diverse repertoires than women. However, when people accessed more news directly, the prominence of more partisan outlets was lower. Per the study paper: Researchers should be wary of extrapolating findings from one country to the rest of the world. But the study further challenges the existence of filter bubbles. Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it right here.