This article examines the media preferences of individuals on Facebook during a political crisis and tests a theoretical model, which explains their behavior. In 2017, the Polish Parliament passed three laws that reformed the judicial system, which according to critics violated the rule of independence of the judiciary from the government. In consequence, thousands of people were mobilized and protested in over two hundred and fifty places in Poland and abroad. We examined 1.8 million Facebook users, who were active on the Facebook pages of the most popular news media outlets, the largest political organizations, and their leaders during this period. Our findings indicate that users who liked posts related to the crisis were less likely to change their liking patterns than users who did not like such posts. These results are valid for users who liked posts published by politically biased sources as well as politically diversified ones. Furthermore, those who liked posts related to the crisis also liked those posts that were congruent with their previous liking patterns. We, therefore, find proof that social media users are relatively consistent in what they like, and that such consistency can be strengthened in situations of political crisis.

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政治危机期间Facebook上的媒体饮食：以2017年波兰司法体制改革为例

本文研究了政治危机期间个人在Facebook上的媒体偏好，并测试了理论模型来解释他们的行为。2017年，波兰议会通过了三项改革司法制度的法律，据批评者称这违反了司法机构独立于政府的规则。结果，在波兰和国外的250多个地方动员了数千人，并进行了抗议。我们调查了180万Facebook用户，在此期间，他们活跃在最受欢迎的新闻媒体，最大的政治组织及其领导人的Facebook页面上。我们的研究结果表明，喜欢与危机相关的帖子的用户比不喜欢此类帖子的用户更改其喜好模式的可能性更低。这些结果对于喜欢由政治偏见来源和政治多元化来源发布的帖子的用户而言是有效的。此外，那些喜欢与危机有关的帖子的人也喜欢那些与他们以前的喜好模式一致的帖子。因此，我们找到了证明，社交媒体用户在他们所喜欢的方面相对一致，并且在政治危机的情况下这种一致性可以得到加强。