@inproceedings{KDD2026, author = {D'Ignazi, Jacopo and Fraxanet, Emma and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and Le Mens, Ga{\"e}l and Germano, Fabrizio and G{\'o}mez, Vicen{\c c}}, title = {Rewarding Engagement and Personalization in Popularity-Based Rankings Amplifies Extremism and Polarization}, year = {2026}, isbn = {9798400722592}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3770855.3818037}, doi = {10.1145/3770855.3818037}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2}, pages = {875–886}, numpages = {12}, keywords = {extremism, polarization, ranking algorithms, social media, personalization, agent-based model, human-subject experiments}, location = {Republic of Korea}, series = {KDD '26} }