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 …

Digital communication has made the public discourse considerably more complex, and new
actors and strategies have emerged as a result of this seismic shift. Aside from the often …

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 …

Mass media and social networks have become the primary channels for people to obtain
and share information. The news and information to which people are exposed or that they …

Polarization is common in politics and public opinion. It is believed to be shaped by media
as well as ideologies, and often incited by misinformation. However, little is known about the …

Influence maximisation, or how to affect the intrinsic opinion dynamics of a social group, is
relevant for many applications, such as information campaigns, political competition, or …

We investigate the phenomena of political bi-polarization in a population of interacting
agents by means of a generalized version of the model introduced by Vazquez et al.[Phys …

There are several opinion dynamics models where extremism is defined as part of their
characteristics. However, the way extremism is implemented in each model does not …