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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…
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…
Emergence of polarization in coevolving networks
Jiazhen Liu, Shengda Huang, Nathan Aden +2
Polarization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in social systems. Empirical studies document substantial evidence for opinion polarization across social media, showing a typical bipolariz…
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…