Facebook Reveals the Reason Why You May Agree With Most of Your Newsfeed

— -- There's a reason why you may agree with a lot of what you see in your newsfeed -- and it has more to do with you than with Facebook.

Facebook's new study looked at millions of its most political users to determine whether the site is becoming an echo chamber where users only see information from like-minded friends.

Published in the journal Science on Thursday, Facebook published the results of their study, which show that while the social network's algorithm tweaks what users see most prominently in their newsfeeds, the rest is largely the result of user actions.

"News Feed surfaces content that is slightly more aligned with an individual's own ideology, however the friends you choose and the content you click on are more important factors than News Feed ranking in terms of how much content you encounter that cuts across ideological lines," Facebook's data science team wrote in a blog post.

Despite the factors that could tweak what a person sees in their newsfeed, Facebook found that plenty of diverse information is getting through to users.

Of the big headlines of the day shared on Facebook, it was found that an exposure average of 29.5 percent to stories from the other side of the political spectrum.

Those who self-reported as liberal or conservation also had an average of 23 percent of friends on the other side of the aisle, according to the study.