Tech Platforms Quietly Throttle Conservative Outlets, Researchers Find

A peer-reviewed study released this week documents reach reductions of up to 60 percent for a sample of right-leaning news outlets across two major social platforms over a six-month window.

The authors controlled for content type, posting cadence and engagement rate. Platform spokespeople declined comment on the study's methodology.

Why it matters

Reach throttling is hard to detect from the outside but materially shapes which stories Americans see.