Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion
Fig 8
Critical virality on empirical networks.
The left figure corresponds to Fig 4, showing the data from Fig 7 at critical threshold, i.e. the threshold where the impact of the cluster is the highest. (As in Fig 4, comparison between the lines should be done with care, as they represent different values of Θ.) The right figure shows the difference between the case and the control for these critical threshold levels. The figure shows that there is indeed a strong interaction effect between political and network polarization, also when the model is run on empirical networks.