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Schadenfreude in the Digital Public Sphere: A cross-national and decade-long analysis of Facebook news engagement
Nouar Aldahoul, Hazem Ibrahim, Majd Mahmutoglu +4
Schadenfreude, or the pleasure derived from others' misfortunes, has become a visible and performative feature of online news engagement, yet little is known about its prevalence,…
TikTok's recommendations skewed towards Republican content during the 2024 U.S. presidential race
Hazem Ibrahim, HyunSeok Daniel Jang, Nouar Aldahoul +3
TikTok is a major force among social media platforms with over a billion monthly active users worldwide and 170 million in the United States. The platform's status as a key news so…
Analyzing political stances on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. election
Hazem Ibrahim, Farhan Khan, Hend Alabdouli +4
Social media platforms play a pivotal role in shaping public opinion and amplifying political discourse, particularly during elections. However, the same dynamics that foster democ…
Static network structure cannot stabilize cooperation among Large Language Model agents
Jin Han, Balaraju Battu, Ivan Romić +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to model human social behavior, with recent research exploring their ability to simulate social dynamics. Here, we test whether L…
Network Members Can Hide from Group Centrality Measures
Marcin Waniek, Talal Rahwan
Group centrality measures are a generalization of standard centrality, designed to quantify the importance of not just a single node (as is the case with standard measures) but rat…
Social Diffusion Sources Can Escape Detection
Marcin Waniek, Manuel Cebrian, Petter Holme +1
Influencing (and being influenced by) others through social networks is fundamental to all human societies. Whether this happens through the diffusion of rumors, opinions, or virus…