Analysis of Antagonistic Dynamics for Rumor Propagation

摘要: The extreme boom of online social networks paves the way for rumor propagation, which may incur an economic loss and cause further public panic. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop countermeasures reducing side effects posed by rumors. Different from state-of-the-art work that mostly conducted micro-perspective studies, our paper focuses on macro-perspective one. In detail, study neglects technical details analyzes antagonistic dynamics between rumormonger suppressor, provides deep understanding overall development trend propagation. To reveal potentials competence-oriented analysis proposed, where sufficient necessary conditions existence Nash equilibrium in this game are proved rigorously, helping us derive steady ratios people who trust or deny rumor. figure out optimal strategy strike back rumormonger, target-oriented conducted, analytical solutions when strategies both players static solved iteration algorithm employed obtain numerical their dynamic. Both real-world-data based simulations adopted verify proposed analyses.