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Social Bots: Detection and Challenges
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Alexander C. Nwala +4
While social media are a key source of data for computational social science, their ease of manipulation by malicious actors threatens the integrity of online information exchanges…
Friction Interventions to Curb the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media
Laura Jahn, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media has enabled the spread of information at unprecedented speeds and scales, and with it the proliferation of high-engagement, low-quality content. *Friction* -- behavior…
Critical avalanches of Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible dynamics in finite networks
Daniele Notarmuzi, Alessandro Flammini, Claudio Castellano +1
We investigate the avalanche temporal statistics of the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model when the dynamics is critical and takes place on finite random networks. By con…
Emergence of simple and complex contagion dynamics from weighted belief networks
Rachith Aiyappa, Alessandro Flammini, Yong-Yeol Ahn
Social contagion is a ubiquitous and fundamental process that drives individual and social changes. Although social contagion arises as a result of cognitive processes and biases,…