Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion
Fig 7
Virality as a function of network polarization in empirical networks.
These figures correspond to Fig 1, and show the effects of network polarization on virality for different activation thresholds. As can be seen, virality (V) is affected by network and opinion polarization. As opinion polarization (Po) increases, the effect of network polarization (Pn) becomes stronger, and we see a familiar peak at around Pn = 0.55 to 0.6. For higher values of network polarization, virality starts to fall.