Fig. 6: Latent ideology scale of influencers and their retweeters in 2016 (left) and 2020 (right). | Nature Human Behaviour

Fig. 6: Latent ideology scale of influencers and their retweeters in 2016 (left) and 2020 (right).

From: Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections

Fig. 6

Top, the latent ideology of the top five influencers of each category is shown as a box plot representing the distribution of the ideology of the users who retweeted them. Bottom, the distributions for the users are shown in green and the distributions for the top 100 influencers of each news media category (computed as the median of the ideology of their retweeters) are displayed in purple. Box plots indicate the median and the 25th and 75th percentiles of the distributions with whiskers indicating the 5th and 95th percentiles. The sample size used for the computation of each box plot is reported to their side. Pie charts next to the influencers’ names represent the news categories to which they belong (weighted by their respective CI ranks in each category).

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