The SEPNS Model of Rumor Propagation in Social Networks

2022 ◽  
pp. 695-707
Author(s):  
Greeshma N. Gopal ◽  
G. Sreerag ◽  
Binsu C. Kovoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Rumor Propagation

A psychologically-inspired fuzzy-based approach for user personality prediction in rumor propagation across social networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
V. Indu ◽  
Sabu M. Thampi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Common People ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
User Personality ◽  
Personality Prediction ◽  
High Degree

Social networks have emerged as a fertile ground for the spread of rumors and misinformation in recent times. The increased rate of social networking owes to the popularity of social networks among the common people and user personality has been considered as a principal component in predicting individuals’ social media usage patterns. Several studies have been conducted to study the psychological factors influencing the social network usage of people but only a few works have explored the relationship between the user’s personality and their orientation to spread rumors. This research aims to investigate the effect of personality on rumor spread on social networks. In this work, we propose a psychologically-inspired fuzzy-based approach grounded on the Five-Factor Model of behavioral theory to analyze the behavior of people who are highly involved in rumor diffusion and categorize users into the susceptible and resistant group, based on their inclination towards rumor sharing. We conducted our experiments in almost 825 individuals who shared rumor tweets on Twitter related to five different events. Our study ratifies the truth that the personality traits of individuals play a significant role in rumor dissemination and the experimental results prove that users exhibiting a high degree of agreeableness trait are more engaged in rumor sharing activities and the users high in extraversion and openness trait restrain themselves from rumor propagation.

scholarly journals A Bio-Inspired Defensive Rumor Confinement Strategy in Online Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Santhoshkumar Srinivasan ◽  
Dhinesh Babu L. D.
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Information Propagation ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Immunization Strategies ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rumor Control

Online social networks (OSNs) are used to connect people and propagate information around the globe. Along with information propagation, rumors also penetrate across the OSNs in a massive order. Controlling the rumor propagation is utmost important to reduce the damage it causes to society. Educating the individual participants of OSNs is one of the effective ways to control the rumor faster. To educate people in OSNs, this paper proposes a defensive rumor control approach that spreads anti-rumors by the inspiration from the immunization strategies of social insects. In this approach, a new information propagation model is defined to study the defensive nature of true information against rumors. Then, an anti-rumor propagation method with a set of influential spreaders is employed to defend against the rumor. The proposed approach is compared with the existing rumor containment approaches and the results indicate that the proposed approach works well in controlling the rumors.

Modeling rumor propagation and refutation with time effect in online social networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (08) ◽  
pp. 1850068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaming Zhang ◽  
Yanyuan Su ◽  
Weigang Li ◽  
Haiou Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Time Effect ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Dynamical Mechanism ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Mean Field Equations

Rumor propagation and refutation form an important issue for spreading dynamics in online social networks (OSNs). In this paper, we introduce a novel two-stage rumor propagation and refutation model with time effect for OSNs. The dynamical mechanism of rumor propagation and refutation with time effect is investigated deeply. Then a two-stage model and the corresponding mean-field equations in both homogeneous and heterogeneous networks are obtained. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to characterize the dynamics of rumor propagation and refutation in both Watts–Strogatz network and Barabási–Albert network. The results show that heterogeneous networks yield the most effective rumor and anti-rumor spreading. Besides, the sooner authority releases anti-rumor and the more attractive anti-rumor is, the less rumor influence is. What’s more, these findings suggest that individuals’ ability to control themselves and identify rumor accurately should be improved to reduce negative impact of rumor effectively. The results are helpful to understand better the mechanism of rumor propagation and refutation in OSNs.

Susceptible-Infectious-Critical-Recovered rumor spreading model in social networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Hongmei ◽  
Qiu Liqing ◽  
Tan Kun ◽  
Cui Junwei
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Critical State ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Rumor Spreading ◽  
Spreading Model ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Number Formula ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Next Generation Matrix

As an important area of social networks, rumor spread has attracted the attention of many scholars. It aims to explore the rumor propagation, and to propose effective measures to curb the further spread of rumors. Different from some existing works, this paper believes that susceptible persons affected by rumor-refuting information will first enter the critical state, while ones who related to rumors will directly turn into the spread state. Therefore, this paper proposes a Susceptible-Infectious-Critical-Recovered (SICR) rumor model. In addition, considering that infectious persons with high levels of refuting rumors may cause emotional resonance among individuals, this model adds a connecting edge from the recovered to the infectious who are triggered by the information of refuting the rumors. First, the basic regeneration number [Formula: see text] is obtained by using the next generation matrix method. Then, the global stability of the rumor-free equilibrium [Formula: see text] and the persistence of rumor propagation are proved in detail in theoretical analysis. The simulation results show that the existence of a critical state can reduce the influence of rumors. Rumor refutation mechanism, as soon as possible to curb the spread of rumors, is an effective measure.

Global Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of a Rumor Propagation Model with Two Discrete Delays in Social Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 2050175
Author(s):  
Linhe Zhu ◽  
Xuewei Wang ◽  
Zhengdi Zhang ◽  
Shuling Shen
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Global Stability ◽  
Equilibrium Points ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Logistic Growth ◽  
Positive Equilibrium ◽  
Normal Form Theory ◽  
Center Manifold Theorem ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Discrete Delays

In this paper, we improve an Ignorant-Lurker-Spreader-Removal (ILSR) rumor propagation model as in [Yang et al., 2019] in social networks with consideration to Logistic growth and two discrete delays. First, we prove the existence of equilibrium points by calculating the basic reproduction number according to the next generation matrix. Regarding the two discrete delays as bifurcating parameters, the local asymptotical stability and Hopf bifurcation of the positive equilibrium point are discussed for six different scenarios by analyzing the characteristic equations of linearized systems. Applying the normal form theory and the center manifold theorem, some important conclusions about the stability and direction of bifurcating periodic solution are given when the two time delays are equal. Subsequently we study the global stability of the equilibrium points by constructing Lyapunov functions when the two delays disappear. Finally, we verify the conclusions through numerical simulations and perform sensitivity analysis on the basic reproduction numbers.

Rumor Detection on Twitter Using a Supervised Machine Learning Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 452-465
Author(s):  
Hardeo Kumar Thakur ◽  
Anand Gupta ◽  
Ayushi Bhardwaj ◽  
Devanshi Verma
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Multiple Classification ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rumor Detection

This article describes how a rumor can be defined as a circulating unverified story or a doubtful truth. Rumor initiators seek social networks vulnerable to illimitable spread, therefore, online social media becomes their stage. Hence, this misinformation imposes colossal damage to individuals, organizations, and the government, etc. Existing work, analyzing temporal and linguistic characteristics of rumors seems to give ample time for rumor propagation. Meanwhile, with the huge outburst of data on social media, studying these characteristics for each tweet becomes spatially complex. Therefore, in this article, a two-fold supervised machine-learning framework is proposed that detects rumors by filtering and then analyzing their linguistic properties. This method attempts to automate filtering by training multiple classification algorithms with accuracy higher than 81.079%. Finally, using textual characteristics on the filtered data, rumors are detected. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is shown through extensive experiments on over 10,000 tweets.

Dynamics of a Rumor Propagation Model with Stochastic Perturbation On Homogeneous Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhuai Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Stochastic Perturbation ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Rumor Propagation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Global Positive Solution ◽  
Stochastic Properties

Abstract The rapid development of information society highlights the important role of rumors in social communication, and its propagation has a significant impact on human production and life. The investigation of the influence of uncertainty on rumor propagation is an important issue in the current communication study. Due to incomprehension about others and the stochastic properties of the users' behavior, the transmission rate between individuals on social network platforms is usually not a constant value. In this paper, we propose a new rumor propagation model on homogeneous social networks from the deterministic structure to the stochastic structure. Firstly, a unique global positive solution of rumor propagation model is obtained. Then, we verify that the extinction and persistence of stochastic rumor propagation model are restricted by some conditions. IfR *0< 1 and the noise intensity s i (i = 1,2,3) satisfies some certain conditions, rumors will extinct with a probability one. If R *0 > 1, rumor-spreading individuals will continue to exist in the system, which means the rumor will prevail for a long time. Finally, through some numerical simulations, the validity and rationality of the theoretical analysis are effectively verified.

A Novel Rumor Propagation Model on Social Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjie Chen ◽  
Weili Wu ◽  
Ailian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Rumor Propagation
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