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Shockwaves and turbulence across social media
Pedro D. Manrique, Frank Huo, Sara El Oud +3
Online communities featuring 'anti-X' hate and extremism, somehow thrive online despite moderator pressure. We present a first-principles theory of their dynamics, which accounts f…
Online Group Dynamics Reveal New Gel Science
Pedro D. Manrique, Sara El Oud, Neil F. Johnson
A better understanding of how support evolves online for undesirable behaviors such as extremism and hate, could help mitigate future harms. Here we show how the highly irregular g…
Covid-19 infodemic reveals new tipping point epidemiology and a revised formula
N. F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, O. K. Jha +8
Many governments have managed to control their COVID-19 outbreak with a simple message: keep the effective ' number' to prevent widespread contagion and flatten the curve.…
Hidden order in online extremism and its disruption by nudging collective chemistry
N. F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, P. Manrique +5
We show that the eclectic "Boogaloo" extremist movement that is now rising to prominence in the U.S., has a hidden online mathematical order that is identical to ISIS during its ea…
Social media cluster dynamics create resilient global hate highways
N. F. Johnson, R. Leahy, N. Johnson Restrepo +3
Online social media allows individuals to cluster around common interests - including hate. We show that tight-knit social clusters interlink to form resilient 'global hate highway…
Online human aggregation under pressure moves beyond preferential attachment
Zhenfeng Cao, Minzhang Zheng, Pedro D. Manrique +2
There is a significant amount of online human activity which is either clandestine or illicit in nature, and hence where individuals operate under fear of exposure or capture. Yet…