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How hate spreads online and why it returns: Re-entrant phases driven by collective behavior
Chen Xu, Pak Ming Hui, Chenkai Xia +1
The 2025 Bondi Beach mass-shooting was perpetrated by individuals inspired by ISIS (Islamic State) propaganda that increasingly featured anti-Semitic hate content following the Oct…
Preventing the Spread of Online Harms: Physics of Contagion across Multi-Platform Social Media and Metaverses
Chen Xu, Pak Ming Hui, Om K. Jha +2
We present a minimal yet empirically-grounded theory for the spread of online harms (e.g. misinformation, hate) across current multi-platform social media and future Metaverses. Ne…
Adaptive cyclically dominating game on co-evolving networks: Numerical and analytic results
Chi Wun Choi, Chen Xu, Pak Ming Hui
A co-evolving and adaptive Rock (R)-Paper (P)-Scissors (S) game (ARPS) in which an agent uses one of three cyclically dominating strategies is proposed and studied numerically and…
Anomalous Contagion and Renormalization in Dynamical Networks with Nodal Mobility
Pedro D. Manrique, Hong Qi, Minzhang Zheng +3
The common real-world feature of individuals migrating through a network -- either in real space or online -- significantly complicates understanding of network processes. Here we…
Common group dynamic drives modern epidemics across social, financial and biological domains
Zhenyuan Zhao, Juan Pablo Calderón, Chen Xu +5
We show that qualitatively different epidemic-like processes from distinct societal domains (finance, social and commercial blockbusters, epidemiology) can be quantitatively unders…
Human group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven by common team dynamic
Neil F. Johnson, Chen Xu, Zhenyuan Zhao +4
Quantifying human group dynamics represents a unique challenge. Unlike animals and other biological systems, humans form groups in both real (offline) and virtual (online) spaces -…