Election Manipulation in Social Networks with Single-Peaked Agents

Vincenzo Auletta, Francesco Carbone, Diodato Ferraioli

Abstract: Several elections run in the last years have been characterized by attempts to manipulate the result of the election through the diffusion of fake or malicious news over social networks. This problem has been recognized as a critical issue for the robustness of our democracy. Analyzing and understanding how such manipulations may occur is crucial to the design of effective countermeasures to these practices.