Mis- and disinformation in a bounded confidence model

The bounded confidence model has been widely used to formally study groups of agents who are sharing opinions with those in their epistemic neighborhood. We revisit the an eye toward studying mis- and disinformation campaigns, which have much news late. To that end, we introduce typed into model, specifically can be irresponsible different ways, most notably, by being deceitful, but also reluctant try obtain information from world directly. further add a mechanism dynamics which—among other things—allows adapt closeness threshold for counting others as neighbors. This will effectiveness possible defense mechanisms against efforts.