Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes
An online experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6443530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franziska Pradel (0000-0003-4559-0772, Technical University of Munich, Germany; University of Cologne, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 4865-4890 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448241244735 |
| OpenAlex | W4396242271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 78 |
This article assesses the effects of hate speech compared to positive and neutral content about refugees in search engines on trust and policy preferences through a survey experiment in Germany. The study uncovers that individuals with an extreme-right political ideology become more hostile toward refugees after being exposed to refugee-related hate speech in search queries. Moreover, politically biased search engines erode trust similarly to politicized sources like politicians, and positively and negatively biased content is trusted less than neutral content. However, individuals with a right political ideology trust more hate speech content than individuals with a left-wing ideology. Individuals with right-wing ideology are also almost three times as likely to intend to click on hate speech suggestions compared to left-wing counterparts
Content (measure theory · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Right wing · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |