Fake news propagation is a complex phenomenon influenced by a multitude of factors
whose identification and impact assessment is challenging. Although many models have …

Characterizing information diffusion on social platforms like Twitter enables us to understand
the properties of underlying media and model communication patterns. As Twitter gains in …

There are significant differences between rumor spreading and epidemic spreading in social
networks, especially with consideration of the mutual effect of forgetting and remembering …

With the prevalence of new media, eg, microblogging, rumors spread faster and wider than
ever before. On the basis of prior studies, this paper modifies a flow chart of the rumor …

Rumor is an important form of social interaction, and its spreading has a significant impact
on people's lives. In the age of Web, people are using electronic media more frequently than …

Education remains one of the fundamental factors in people's lives. The education rate of a
population reflects the degree of vulnerability of a typical individual to any kind of …

Rumor is an important form of social interaction. However, spreading of harmful rumors
could have a significant negative impact on the well-being of the society. In this paper …

In this paper, to study rumor spreading, we propose a novel susceptible-infected-removed
(SIR) model by introducing the trust mechanism. We derive mean-field equations that …

A rumor spreading model with the consideration of forgetting rate changing over time is
examined in small-world networks. The mean-field equations are derived to describe the …

Rumor plays a key role in social interaction, and its spreading has a notable influence on
human lives. In this work, we study the rumor spreading dynamical model in a social network …