arXiv:2610.17469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social media platforms generate vast volumes of user-generated content that often obscure meaningful discourse, a phenomenon conceptualized as social...
arXiv:2608. 16323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The spread of misinformation on social networks poses a significant challenge to online communities and society at large.
arXiv:2609.22497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aggregation of many lay estimates often outperforms individual expert judgment, a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds. While this is usually a...
The paper investigates why misinformation spreads more quickly on engagement‑based platforms by dissecting the recommendation algorithm of X. It identifies an engagement fungibility mechanism that rewards instant reactions (likes, retweets) over thoughtful engagement (replies, quotes), allowing misinformation—which tends to attract instant reactions—to receive more recommendations. The authors validate this mechanism through a simulation on the USC X 2024 election corpus, showing that adjusting metric weights has little effect, while requiring thoughtful engagement before amplification can significantly reduce the credibility exposure gap without harming mainstream content or engagement.
The paper presents a theory-informed computational framework that converts cross-disciplinary theories of fake news into measurable features for automated detection and explanation. By reviewing theories from social sciences, psychology, economics, and more, the authors establish a broad theoretical foundation for computational modeling. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that theory-derived features are predictive, provide interpretable diagnostic signals, and that multi-feature models generally outperform individual features, though gains are modest.
arXiv:2606.16710v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) are credited with solving complex problems, yet their agents routinely act on context that may be false. Prior work...
arXiv:2606. 05256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study analyzes a publicly released dataset from a discontinued field experiment on Reddit's r/ChangeMyView.
arXiv:2606. 30801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalization algorithms determine what content users encounter on online platforms.
arXiv:2606. 27936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread collection of fine-grained location data by commercial data brokers creates a re-identification risk that is not widely recognised by the public.
arXiv:2602. 02838v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The detection of online influence operations -- coordinated campaigns by malicious actors to spread narratives -- has traditionally depended on content analysis or network features.
arXiv:2608.29803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as proxies for human participants in social simulations, yet whether they update their beliefs...
Persuasion is a core dynamic of natural language communication, shaping how large language models (LLMs) update beliefs, resolve disagreements, and reach decisions. As LLMs increasingly debate, advise, and think collaboratively with humans and each other, resistance to harmful persuasion becomes a core requirement for reliable behavior.