Study: Haaretz the only news bridge between warring sides
According to a new study of social media behavior, the only news site read by both pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians is Haaretz.com.
Haaretz.com is the only news site that bridges between the global pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian camps in an increasingly polarized online world, according to a new study of how news is shared on social networks.
Haaretz is the only major news site that is read by both pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians and is “clearly positioned well in the network to make an important impact on both sides,” according to the study’s author Gilad Lotan, chief data scientist at the New York startup incubator Betaworks.
The study focused on the current conflict in the Gaza Strip, specifically on the dissemination of news about two incidents – the bombings of United Nations schools in Rafah and Beit Hanun – over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
One graph included in the study shows the responses of Twitter users to the Beit Hanun incident on July 25. With Twitter accounts color coded to represent shared connections, the graph displays a clear separation between the two sides: Pro-Palestinian news outlets, bloggers and journalists are bunched in green on the right, while pro-Israeli groups (media outlets, Israeli public personas, American Zionists and American conservatives) are grouped in blue on the left.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.608980
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