tenets of individual, community, and transnational perspectives, we develop novel algorithms modeling CSMs by utilizing … the diffusion of issues in social networks and examines roles of influential community members. The proposed methodology …

provision or cheap talk, and competition inherent to social media may incentivize participants to either process better …, we find evidence that social media can be informative about future stock returns but that competition distorts opinions … rather than encouraging participants to process better information. In particular, competition induces exaggerated negative …