Research on rumor early warning mechanism based on kinetic energy

Abstract

Abstract. Network rumors have become a severe scourge disturbing people's network life, even endangering social stability and national security. The best way to control rumor propagation is to discover earlier, so as to take actions to govern rumor before it breaks out. In this paper, from the aspects of rumor itself and rumor's audiences, taking rumor's importance and the number of spreaders as well as social environment into consideration, we propose a early warning model of network rumors based on kinetic energy. The kinetic energy is used to measure a message's attraction. When the attraction is beyond the threshold, some measures should be taken to monitor this message. If this message is judged as a rumor, the government should control the message at once and publish official information at the same time. Several experiments were conducted to verify the model's accuracy and effectiveness.