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Crude, Commercial, and Self-Referential: Chinese-Language Coordinated Activity in Japanese-Language X
Kei Ichikawa, Bruno T. Sugano, Genta Toya +5
Malicious coordination has long been regarded as a principal source of information ecosystem pollution. Here, we focus on crude, text-repetition-based coordination. As the demand f…
Attentional DoS: Repeat Reposting, Collective Attention, and Information Diffusion on X
Genta Toya, Bruno T. Sugano, Kei Ichikawa +6
Collective attention is a finite shared resource, and social media posts compete for limited opportunities to be seen. On X, users can undo a repost and repost it again. By repeati…
Uncovering Non-Normality in Information Flow: Network Structure and Dynamics of Social Media Cascades
Qianyun Wu, Bruno T. Sugano, Genta Toya +5
Information cascades on social media are conventionally conceptualized as directed, feedforward branching processes. However, real-world diffusion pathways frequently deviate from…
A latent dimension of Condorcet's jury theorem for multiple AI advisers
Kazutoshi Sasahara, Aoi Naito, Ryo Fujie
When the same question is asked of multiple AI advisers, as in self-consistency and LLM-as-a-judge panels, Condorcet's jury theorem predicts that adding independent, competent advi…
Segregation Before Polarization: How Recommendation Strategies Shape Echo Chamber Pathways
Junning Zhao, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Yu Chen
Social media platforms facilitate echo chambers through feedback loops between user preferences and recommendation algorithms. While algorithmic homogeneity is well-documented, the…