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Containing misinformation: Modeling spatial games of fake news
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A mathematical model treating news sharing as a coordination game shows how network structure enables fake-news echo chambers and more than doubles fake news’ resistance to distributed sanctioning. Simulations on lattices, small-worlds and a Twitter dataset demonstrate that strategically placed sanctioners can contain misinformation; analytic conditions for effective peer sanctioning are derived. Research conducted by Matthew I. Jones, Scott D. Pauls, and Feng Fu.
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