Modeling and Simulation of Polarization in Internet Group Opinions Based on Cellular Automata

Figure 13

Influence of zealots on the times of system stable under different scale of networks. (a) It is not obviously different for promoting group consensus when the opinion leader is a zealot. (b) It is not obviously different for promoting group consensus in the case of random selection of 5% individuals as zealots. Both in (a) and (b), zealot’s opinion is 1. Each data point is an average over 30 independent experiments.

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