Awesome! We’d love to hear what you and your students think about it.

We are also grateful for comments received on earlier versions of this work from Diyi Liu, Eran Amsalem @patyrossini.bsky.social Alon Zoizner, and @orentsur.bsky.social & for funding from European Research Council (ERC), Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and BGU's Data Science Center.

Big shout-out to the people whose work enabled this research, including @sdmccabe.com @jongreen.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social Magdalena Wojcieszak @jatucker.bsky.social Subhayan Mukerjee @ylelkes.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @chriswells.bsky.social (pls tag others if missing).

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Finally, looking at the demographic composition of consumption "types", we find that the media-oriented clusters (exc. superconsumers) have older individuals, more women, and more registered Democrats.

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Even when putting aside the more extreme "media superconsumers", the two media-oriented clusters (which are ~20% of the population), get half or more of their political content *directly* from media organizations and journalists, without any mediation from peers.

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Americans also vary in the breakdown of actors that populate their feeds, but interestingly, the bulk of the population gets half or more of their political exposure from *traditional sources*—media organizations, journalists, and politicians.

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People's political feeds mostly map onto 8 distinct types that vary in the amount of politics they get, both in absolute #'s and as % the feed as a whole. Still, for nearly 90% of the population, about 1 in 12 posts from their network are political. Quite an engaged public!

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