Unveiling the Truth and Facilitating Change: Towards Agent-based Large-scale Social Movement Simulation

Understand

Social media has emerged as a cornerstone of social movements, wielding significant influence in driving societal change.

• Simulating the response of the public and forecasting the potential impact has become increasingly important.
• However, existing methods for simulating such phenomena encounter challenges concerning their efficacy and efficiency in capturing the behaviors of social movement participants.
• In this paper, we introduce a hybrid framework HiSim for social media user simulation, wherein users are categorized into two types.