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 inform...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Ozdaglar, Asuman E., Parandehgheibi, Ali
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61745
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-1285
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491