The short squeeze of GameStop (GME) shares in mid-January 2021 has been primarily
orchestrated by retail investors of the Reddit r/wallstreetbets community. As such, it …

Many people rely on online social networks as sources of news and information, and the
spread of media content with ideologies across the political spectrum influences online …

Opinions in human societies are measured by political polls on time scales of months to
years. Such opinion polls do not resolve the effects of individual interactions but constitute a …

We study the effect of time-fluctuating social influences on the formation of polarization and
consensus in a three-party community consisting of two types of voters (“leftists” and …

The flourishing of fake news is supported by recommendation algorithms of online social
networks, which, based on previous user activity, provide content adapted to their …

In this paper we study a generalized case of best-of-n model, which considers three kind of
agents: zealots, individuals who remain stubborn and do not change their opinion; informed …

In this paper we study the effect of inflexible individuals with fixed opinions, or zealots, on the
dynamics of the best-of-n collective decision making problem, using both the voter model …

The Naming Game is a classic model for studying the emergence and evolution of language
in a population. In this paper, we consider the Naming Game with multiple committed …

We introduce a socially motivated extension of the voter model in which individual voters are
also influenced by two opposing, fixed-opinion news sources. These sources forestall …

The Voter model is a well-studied stochastic process that models the invasion of a novel trait
A (eg, a new opinion, social meme, genetic mutation, magnetic spin) in a network of …