In recent years, microblog systems such as Twitter and Sina Weibo have averaged
multimillion active users. On the other hand, the microblog system has become a new …

Predictions about people, such as their expected educational achievement or their credit
risk, can be performative and shape the outcome that they are designed to predict …

spread of misinformation, rumors and hoaxes. The goal of this work is to introduce a simple
modeling framework to study the diffusion of hoaxes and in particular how the availability of …

Background There is an urgent need to understand how the provision of information
influences individual risk perception and how this in turn shapes the evolution of epidemics …

This study offers an in-depth analysis of four rumors that spread through Twitter after the
2013 Boston Marathon Bombings. Through qualitative and visual analysis, we describe …

Abstract Information spreading in a population can be modeled as an epidemic.
Campaigners (eg, election campaign managers, companies marketing products or movies) …

Objectives This paper investigates the role of epistemic belief in affecting Internet users'
decision to share online health rumors. To delve deeper, it examines how the characteristics …

With the prevalence of social networks, it has become increasingly important to understand
their features and limitations. It has been observed that information spreads extremely fast in …

We study the connection between the rate at which a rumor spreads throughout a graph and
the conductance of the graph--a standard measure of a graph's expansion properties. We …

Social media platforms provide an increasingly popular means for individuals to share
content online. Whilst this produces undoubted societal benefits, the ability for content to be …