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Social media simulation model calibrated for content moderation research

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Researchers have developed a calibrated extension of the SimSoM agent-based model to simulate social media dynamics, specifically focusing on content moderation. This enhanced model, grounded in real-world data from the COVID-19 pandemic, uses the CMA-ES optimization strategy to fit empirical distributions. The study demonstrates that real-time moderation, unlike static evaluations, can overestimate the effectiveness of user bans due to compensatory resharing by remaining users, highlighting the importance of simulation-based evaluation for moderation policies. AI

IMPACT Provides a reusable framework for evaluating content moderation policies in simulated social media environments.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new simulation model and methodology. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Social media simulation model calibrated for content moderation research

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  1. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Silvia Giordano ·

    "If It Looks Like a User": Measuring Real-Time Moderation Effects via Social Media Simulation

    Agent-based social media simulators offer a controlled environment to study content moderation, yet their value hinges on how faithfully they reproduce real platform dynamics. We develop a calibrated extension of SimSoM, an agent-based model of information diffusion on social net…

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