
Strategic Opinion Manipulation in Multiplex Networks
When a platform merges opinions reported across several networks, agents can report differently on each; the resulting equilibrium distorts consensus and overstates polarization.

When a platform merges opinions reported across several networks, agents can report differently on each; the resulting equilibrium distorts consensus and overstates polarization.

This paper proposes new models of multiplex network games to capture the different modalities of interactions among strategic agents, and multilayer network games to capture their interactions over multiple action dimensions.