132 citations · 237 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
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Softening online extremes organically and at scale
Elvira Maria Restrepo, Martin Moreno, Lucia Illari +1
Calls are escalating for social media platforms to do more to mitigate extreme online communities whose views can lead to real-world harms, e.g., mis/disinformation and distrust th…
Population polarization dynamics and next-generation social media algorithms
N. F. Johnson, P. Manrique, M. Zheng +8
We present a many-body theory that explains and reproduces recent observations of population polarization dynamics, is supported by controlled human experiments, and addresses the…
Generalized Gelation Theory describes Human Online Aggregation in support of Extremism
Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, Zhenfeng Cao +1
Though many aggregation theories exist for physical, chemical and biological systems, they do not account for the significant heterogeneity found, for example, in populations of li…
New Online Ecology of Adversarial Aggregates: ISIS and beyond
N. F. Johnson, M. Zheng, Y. Vorobyeva +8
Support for extremist entities - whether from the far right, or far left - often manages to survive globally online despite significant external pressure, and may ultimately inspir…
Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism
Neil F. Johnson, Mike Spagat, Jorge A. Restrepo +5
We report a remarkable universality in the patterns of violence arising in three high-profile ongoing wars, and in global terrorism. Our results suggest that these quite different…
From old wars to new wars and global terrorism
N. Johnson, M. Spagat, J. Restrepo +4
Even before 9/11 there were claims that the nature of war had changed fundamentally. The 9/11 attacks created an urgent need to understand contemporary wars and their relationship…