arXiv:2607.21842cs.SIcs.LG2026-07

用新闻可信度信号跨平台量化政治偏执,揭示平台间差异。

Quantifying Political Partisanship for Cross-Platform Analyses

论文配图:Quantifying Political Partisanship for Cross-Platform Analyses
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  • 基于句向量聚类+新闻可信度标签构建跨平台偏执度测量方法。
  • 在130万条推文上验证,偏执度与媒体偏见高度相关。
  • 适用于主流与小众平台对比,适合研究政治极化现象。

社交媒体上的政治极化研究依赖于对用户生成内容中政治偏执的可靠度量。然而,现有方法通常针对特定平台的结构特性或语言习惯定制,限制了跨平台泛化能力。随着社交媒体生态碎片化及边缘、替代性技术平台兴起,这一局限日益严重。本文提出一种基于文本、可跨平台迁移的政治偏执度测量方法,以外部新闻可信度信号为锚点。通过Transformer句编码器对帖子进行嵌入并聚类至主题组,利用引用新闻媒体的AllSides媒体偏见评分聚合标注主题组。在嵌入空间中构建反对立场主题组中心之间的偏执轴,并将单个帖子投影到该轴上获得偏执分数。该方法应用于2024年美国总统大选前六个月从Bluesky和Truth Social收集的大约130万条推文,首次实现这两个意识形态不对称平台的偏执分布跨平台比较。结果表明,该偏执分数在同分布与跨分布(独立的Twitter语料)下均与保留的AllSides媒体偏见评分显著相关,并还原了仅靠平台身份无法解释的内部偏执动态。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Research on political polarization on social media depends on the ability to reliably measure partisanship in user-generated content. However, existing approaches are typically tailored to platform-specific properties, such as structural affordances or linguistic conventions, which hurts generalizability across platforms. This limitation is increasingly consequential as the social media ecosystem fragments and fringe, alt-tech platforms emerge alongside mainstream ones. We propose a text-based, platform-portable methodology for measuring political partisanship in social media posts, anchored by an external news-credibility signal. Posts are embedded using a transformer-based sentence encoder and clustered into topic groups, which are labeled using the aggregated AllSides media bias scores of cited news outlets. A partisanship axis is then constructed in the embedding space as the difference between centroids of oppositely labeled clusters, and individual posts are scored by projection onto this axis. We apply the method to a corpus of approximately 1.3 million posts collected from Bluesky and Truth Social during the six months preceding the 2024 U.S. presidential election, providing the first cross-platform comparison of partisanship distributions on these two ideologically asymmetric platforms. The resulting partisanship scores correlate significantly with held-out AllSides media bias scores both in-distribution and out-of-distribution on an independent Twitter corpus, and recover within-platform partisan dynamics that platform identity alone cannot explain.

政治极化跨平台分析偏执度量化新闻可信度

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