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The proliferation of fake news in the digital age has raised critical concerns, particularly regarding its impact on societal trust and democratic processes. Diverging from conventional agent-based simulation approaches, this work…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Xinyi Li , Yu Xu , Yongfeng Zhang , Edward C. Malthouse

Misinformation on social media thrives on surprise, emotion, and identity-driven reasoning, often amplified through human cognitive biases. To investigate these mechanisms, we model large language model (LLM) personas as synthetic agents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Raj Gaurav Maurya , Vaibhav Shukla , Raj Abhijit Dandekar , Rajat Dandekar , Sreedath Panat

Online social networks have transformed the ways in which political mobilization messages are disseminated, raising new questions about how peer influence operates at scale. Building on the landmark 61-million-person Facebook experiment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sadegh Shirani , Mohsen Bayati

Disinformation campaigns can distort public perception and destabilize institutions. Understanding how different populations respond to information is crucial for designing effective interventions, yet real-world experimentation is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 David Farr , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng , Stephen Prochaska , Iain J. Cruickshank , Jevin West

Online information is increasingly linked to real-world instability, especially as automated accounts and LLM-based agents help spread and amplify news. In this work, we study how information spreads on networks of Large Language Models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Moyi Tian , George Mohler , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Nancy Rodríguez

The rapid proliferation of rumors on social networks poses a significant threat to information integrity. While rumor dissemination forms complex structural patterns, existing detection methods often fail to capture the intricate interplay…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiran Tao , Cheng Wang , Binyan Jiang

Rumor propagation modeling is critical for understanding and mitigating misinformation. Existing approaches combining rule-based regular agents with LLM-driven core agents provide a promising paradigm for large-scale rumor simulation.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yijun Liu , Wu Liu , Xiaoyan Gu , Hantao Yao , Weiping Wang , Jiebo Luo , Yongdong Zhang

Research on online social networks (OSNs) is often hindered by platform opacity, limited access to data, and ethical constraints. Simulation offer a valuable alternative, but existing frameworks frequently lack realism and explainability.…

Agent-based social simulation provides a valuable methodology for predicting social information diffusion, yet existing approaches face two primary limitations. Traditional agent models often rely on rigid behavioral rules and lack semantic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xinyi Li , Zhiqiang Guo , Qinglang Guo , Hao Jin , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) offer unprecedented opportunities for analyzing social phenomena at scale. This paper demonstrates the value of LLMs in psychological measurement by (1) compiling the first large-scale dataset of election rumors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Etienne Casanova , R. Michael Alvarez

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated an unprecedented ability to simulate human-like social behaviors, making them useful tools for simulating complex social systems. However, it remains unclear to what extent these simulations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Erica Cau , Andrea Failla , Giulio Rossetti

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems that simulate real-world interactions with near-human reasoning. While previous studies have extensively examined biases related to protected attributes such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Min Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Sungwon Chae , Sangyeob Baek

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to mimic human behavior triggered a plethora of computational social science research, assuming that empirical studies of humans can be conducted with AI agents instead. Since there have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Simon Münker , Nils Schwager , Achim Rettinger

Recent advancements in Large Language Models offer promising capabilities to simulate complex human social interactions. We investigate whether LLM-based multi-agent simulations can reproduce core human social dynamics observed in online…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hsien-Tsung Lin , Pei-Cing Huang , Chan-Tung Ku , Chan Hsu , Pei-Xuan Shieh , Yihuang Kang

Online social networks offer a valuable lens to analyze both individual and collective phenomena. Researchers often use simulators to explore controlled scenarios, and the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) makes these simulations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Elisa Composta , Nicolo' Fontana , Francesco Corso , Francesco Pierri

Social network simulation plays a crucial role in addressing various challenges within social science. It offers extensive applications such as state prediction, phenomena explanation, and policy-making support, among others. In this work,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chen Gao , Xiaochong Lan , Zhihong Lu , Jinzhu Mao , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

In the last years, the study of rumor spreading on social networks produced a lot of interest among the scientific community, expecially due to the role of social networks in the last political events. The goal of this work is to reproduce…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Mattia Mazzoli , Tullio Re , Roberto Bertilone , Marco Maggiora , Jacopo Pellegrino

Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) has emerged as an essential tool for simulating social networks, encompassing diverse phenomena such as information dissemination, influence dynamics, and community formation. However, manually configuring varied…

In this work, we investigate to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for rumor detection on social media. However, it is challenging for LLMs to reason over the entire propagation information on social media, which contains news contents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Qiang Liu , Xiang Tao , Junfei Wu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

This paper introduces a simulator designed for opinion dynamics researchers to model competing influences within social networks in the presence of LLM-based agents. By integrating established opinion dynamics principles with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Mehwish Nasim , Syed Muslim Gilani , Amin Qasmi , Usman Naseem
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