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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity

Zhen Kan, Justin Klotz, Eduardo L. Pasiliao, Warren E. Dixon

2014 · arXiv

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Social interactions influence our thoughts, opinions and actions. In this paper, social interactions are studied within a group of individuals composed of influential social leaders and followers. Each person is assumed to maintain a social state, which can be an emotional state or an opinion. Followers update their social states based on the states of local neighbors, while social leaders maintain a constant desired state. Social interactions are modeled as a general directed graph where each directed edge represents an influence from one person to another. Motivated by the non-local property of fractional-order systems, the social response of individuals in the network are modeled by fractional-order dynamics whose states depend on influences from local neighbors and past experiences. A decentralized influence method is then developed to maintain existing social influence between individuals (i.e., without isolating peers in the group) and to influence the social group to a common desired state (i.e., within a convex hull spanned by social leaders). Mittag-Leffler stability methods are used to prove asymptotic stability of the networked fractional-order system.

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shufflerofrocks
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>Also, IGNORE anything on Twitter, Reddit, or HN (ironic ik). The lesswrong/credibledefense/zeihan types are all idiots ime. Using an "objective" tone doesn't make rubbish "objective" Not to mention these sites are FILLED to the brim with bots. Eg. In 2013, the most "reddit-addicted" area was Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, with largest amount of activity [0]. Eglin was one of the few places used in a study for testing social media manipulation by Pentagon [1] And not to mention the Russian/Chinese/Indian bots [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit... [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644
Original comment Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
shrubble
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https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1619567947349098496 "Daily reminder that Reddit accidentally outed Eglin AFB as the most “Reddit addicted” city. Eglin AFB has been a huge part of the Pentagon’s social media manipulation campaigns for over a decade now." URLs given at link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.reddit... https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf
Original comment At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
jimmygrapes
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I also remember reading several articles along the same lines mostly coming out of Eglin AFB. Due to the horrible state of search engines now I can't find the originals, but a saved paper I have in my bookmarks suggests similar: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf It would take more searching of archives than I have capacity for, but I can at least anecdotally confirm GP's claim.
Original comment Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
sudosysgen
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How is it whataboutism? Twitter is posting about state info ops but don't mention any American ones. If you want evidence the US military is running info ops, here it is straight from the horse's mouth : http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf Beyond that Snowden gave up a few more details, see https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/16/britains-twi...
Original comment Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed
doctorless
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I actually gave a talk about automating influence on social media with what effectively amounted to chatbots, as a part of the 2016 election. Many of these factors were used, but also a few other interesting elements this article didn’t mention: 1. Geographic locales have linguistic norms that silently help in-group association. Adjusting rhetoric to these terms make people more pliable. 2. Context-aware sentiment is more impactful than general sentiment analysis. Someone may not have been a Trump supporter, but they didn’t like Hillary. This became another fulcrum. 3. Social leaders had the biggest impact, but social leaders can be made. This was leveraging a thought…
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experiment conducted by DARPA, published in a paper titled, “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity“ (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf) These and a few other factors lead to my prediction of polling trajectories delivering a win for Trump in 2016 (the lecture was in August).
Original comment Neuroscientist found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
Lammy
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Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
Original comment A Reddit bot drove me insane
Lammy
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Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
Original comment The Reddits
Lammy
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Here's a fun academic paper HNers may enjoy: "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity" in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory out of Eglin AFB in Florida: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …which (totally coincidentally) was Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
Original comment Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Lammy
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> This was so easy that I know that if someone put a bit more effort into making the automation less obvious and also using enough real interaction you could do massive manipulation. There have been government studies on this as well, like "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity" in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory out of Eglin AFB in Florida: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …which coincidentally was outed as Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
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