As strong as the weakest node: the impact of misinformation in social networks

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2023.105773MaRDI QIDQ6139987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuel Mueller-Frank

Publication date 19 January 2024

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2023.105773

zbMATH Keywords

degroot updatingdisinformationmisinformationquasi-Bayesian updatingsocial learningsocial networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social learning (91D15) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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