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From: Network segregation and the propagation of misinformation

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Theoretical expectations. We simulated diffusion processes in ring lattice networks as depicted in Fig. 1. Each diffusion process was seeded both in an integrated and in a segregated network (N = 96). We varied baseline sharing probability p (0.2–0.8) and ideological bias b (0.05–0.2), see Materials and methods. We measure exposure as the percentage of network nodes that have received a certain message. The model predicts that network segregation raises exposure to low-p content and decreases exposure to content with higher levels of p, and does so more for greater bias b. We report simulation results as connected lines across different p.

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