(f) (g) (h) (i) (j)
Figure 3: Distribution of production and consumption polarity, for P (rst row) and NP (second row)
datasets. The scatter plots display the production (x-axis) and consumption ( -axis) polarities of each user in a dataset. Colors
indicate user polarity sign, following [6] (grey = democrat, yellow = republican). The one-dimensional plots along the axes
show the distributions of the production and consumption polarities for democrats and republicans.
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
(f) (g) (h) (i) (j)
Figure 4: Top: Production polarity variance vs. production polarity (mean). Bottom: Consumption polarity variance vs. con-
sumption polarity (mean).
However, dierently from the rest of the side they align with, they
show a lower clustering coecient, an indication that they are
not completely embedded in a single community. Given that they
receive content also from the opposing side, this result is to be
Finally, given that both partisans and gatekeepers sport higher
centrality, we compare their PageRank values directly and nd that
there is a signicant dierence: partisans have a higher PageRank
compared to gatekeepers (gure not shown). This eect is more
Variance
(f) (g) (h) (i) (j)
Figure 3: Distribution of production and consumption polarity, for P (rst row) and NP (second row)
datasets. The scatter plots display the production (x-axis) and consumption ( -axis) polarities of each user in a dataset. Colors
indicate user polarity sign, following [6] (grey = democrat, yellow = republican). The one-dimensional plots along the axes
show the distributions of the production and consumption polarities for democrats and republicans.
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
(f) (g) (h) (i) (j)
Figure 4: Top: Production polarity variance vs. production polarity (mean). Bottom: Consumption polarity variance vs. con-
sumption polarity (mean).
However, dierently from the rest of the side they align with, they
show a lower clustering coecient, an indication that they are
not completely embedded in a single community. Given that they
receive content also from the opposing side, this result is to be
Finally, given that both partisans and gatekeepers sport higher
centrality, we compare their PageRank values directly and nd that
there is a signicant dierence: partisans have a higher PageRank
compared to gatekeepers (gure not shown). This eect is more