Concept
What attackers can exploit. Grows with network size in the pure-transport view; with tunable selection-gate criteria in the full view. Recommendation algorithms are selection engines with adjustable weights — the more dangerous formulation.
Connections
- Defined in: Virality Trade-off, Transport vs. Selection
- Discussed in: Virality Trade-off, Ch 10 — Political Economy of Attention, Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Supported by: The Misinformation Age
- Pressure-tested by: Not Born Yesterday
- Evidenced by: An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media, Memetics — a critique, The Misinformation Age, Not Born Yesterday, Psychology of Virality
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