How the government’s punishment and individual’s sensitivity affect the rumor spreading in online social networks

Dandan Li and Jing Ma

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017, vol. 469, issue C, 284-292

Abstract: We explore the impact of punishment of governments and sensitivity of individuals on the rumor spreading in this paper. Considering the facts that some rumors that relate to the hot events could be disseminated repeatedly, however, some other rumors will never be disseminated after they have been popular for some time. Therefore, we investigate two types (SIS and SIR) of rumor spreading models in which the punishment of government and sensitivity of individuals are considered. Based on the mean-field method, we have calculated the spreading threshold of SIS and SIR model, respectively. Furthermore, we perform the rumor spreading process in the Facebook and POK social networks, and achieve that there is an excellent agreement between the theoretical and numerical results of spreading threshold. The results indicate that improving the punishment of government and increasing the sensitivity of individuals could control the spreading of rumor effectively.

Keywords: Punishment of governments; Sensitivity of individuals; Rumor spreading; Online social networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.11.033

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