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These ideas are used, and they influence what policy is crafted.

You can’t predict what an individual will do, but work like this kills many inaccurate ideological positions that we inherited.

There’s a paper from 2016 that shows how posts saturate/cascade through conspiracy communities and that it has distinct cascade dynamics. This wasn’t a model, it was a description of observed behavior.

Or take some relatively recent work from Harvard, which suggests that while our capacity to create misinformation has increased in both quantity and quality, its consumption rate seems to be stable.