Selective Sharing of News Items and the Political Position of News Outlets

Detecting Coverage Bias in User-Generated Content

“…Finally, MPs from the Left may consider an extensive web presence as more important than MPs from other parties. Freitag et al (2020), for instance, find that 74% of the MPs from the Left have used Twitter in the six months following the constitution of the 19th Bundestag in 2017, while only 55.6% of the MPs from the SPD, 36% of the MPs from the CDU and 30.4% of the MPs from the CSU have done so. 24 Several large cities such as Cologne and Berlin are divided into several electoral districts.…”