Complexity in Individual Trajectories toward Online Extremism

Figure 3

Group-joining. (a) Transition matrix obtained from the empirical data (left) and a simulation (right, see SI) showing conditional probability that a future-ban individual in a group of class (row) will next join a group of class (column). Future-ban individuals have the greatest preference for next joining a banned, large, news group, with this type of group acting as a global attractor (black ring). (b) Corresponding result after renormalizing by the number and size of groups in class . Two additional weaker attractors now emerge (black ring).

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