The spread of misinformation
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چکیده
How does information behave? A recent controversial approach is to use ideas in evolutionary biology to study the spread of information. However, in order for the information to ‘evolve’, there has to be some mechanism for variation. This paper would explore the ideas of memes which use the evolutionary biology approach as well as the pitfalls in using this picture. Finally, we will focus our attention on the fidelity of information which affects the variation of memes. A multi-agent model[10] was used to study the effects of misperception and miscommunication in a simple resource gathering simulation.
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