Spread of (mis)information in social networks

Spread of (mis)information in social networks

We provide a model to investigate the tension between information aggregation and spread of misinformation in large societies (conceptualized as networks of agents communicating with each other). Each individual holds a belief represented by a scalar. Individuals meet pairwise and exchange informati...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron (Contributor), Ozdaglar, Asuman E. (Contributor), Parandehgheibi, Ali (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V., 2011-03-18T21:06:59Z.
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