2.2 Results
SAID
Although participants were instructed to examine all the tweets in the Twitter feed (35 in the two bias groups, 30 in the control group), 29.0% of them did not comply, scrolling less than the full distance. Rather than discarding people with low scroll scores, we chose, for comparison purposes, to divide the sample into two groups: Low Compliance (maximum scroll values ≤ 50%) and High Compliance (maximum scroll values > 50%).We call the shift in voting preferences “Vote Manipulation Power,” or VMP, which is the post-manipulation increase of people in the bias groups (expressed as a percentage increase) who said they would vote for the favored candidate [