Stochastics of News Article Propagation: Joint Modeling of Counts and Reliability Composition in Event-Driven News Cascades

Harry Wang, Ruthesh Thavamani, Sriyan Madugula

We study the news cascade triggered by a single high-impact event as a pair of coupled stochastic processes: the daily article count $N(t)$ and the reliable-vs-unreliable compositi…