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Table 2 Summary of the two compared datasets

From: Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure

 

Active followers

Classified URLs

Retweets (Retweeters)

Original dataset

419,446

22,179

154,078

(14 left & 4 right)

  

(68,225)

Balanced dataset

146,480

11,289

60,524

(4 left & 4 right)

  

(27,597)

  1. The balanced dataset is a subset of the original dataset, where we balance the number of left and right media sources.