The paper, led by Eugina Leung, is here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We document that the human tendency for confirmation bias in question framing (the tendency of people to frame search in terms of their prior beliefs) and algorithms that optimize for relevance combine to impede belief updating.
Information search platforms, from Google to AI-assisted search engines, have transformed
information access but may fail to promote a shared factu...
