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liquefaction187 t1_ivcdk9j wrote

Reply to comment by Careless_Bat2543 in Examining 100,000 crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2019, researchers found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates by giuliomagnifico

If they used actual crime rates, the disparity would be even bigger.

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Blahblah778 t1_ivd4t8q wrote

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how the hell the percentage was so low, this explains it

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