Online word-of-mouth in West Africa: the effects of snowball sampling on completion rate, respondent demographics, and survey responses
2026-05-05T08:52:23Z•927c35bac1995d8d4c33825b475e33b348bbc5826f6aa8a81dfc8756cccdf1f9
Facebookactivismdecentralized social networksextremismgraph neural networkshypergraph partitioningideological polarizationinformation operationsnetwork analysisprivacyquantum optimizationsnowball samplingsocial mediasurveillancesurvey methodology
What happened
This collection of arXiv papers spans social-media dynamics, political engagement, extremist discourse, decentralized social networks (DSNs), survey methodology, and several technical advances in graph/quantum optimization and ML for relational data. Key security-relevant contributions: (1) analyses of Facebook political news show ideological discrepancy correlates with emotional valence, toxicity, and audience consensus (nonlinear effects and higher toxicity under extreme mismatch), with implications for information operations and polarization detection; (2) a short study of extremist/discour
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- arxiv_cs_si
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- 927c35bac1995d8d4c33825b475e33b348bbc5826f6aa8a81dfc8756cccdf1f9
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- 2026-05-05T08:52:23Z
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