Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence (npj, Nature)

Adaptive links across smaller platforms connect the hate user base over time, strengthening hate networks, avoiding mitigations, and expanding their direct influence into the vast neighboring mainstream instead of big social media platforms being the primary drivers. Information suggests that exposure has affected hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, including children. The researchers present a tipping-point condition that predicts future spikes in content transmission, as well as governing equations derived from first principles.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-024-00002-2