We examine the influence of political connections on media slant for a sample of Chinese listed firms. We find that firms with stronger political connections obtain more positive reports from eight major Chinese business newspapers. The association is more pronounced when firms are located in...

We consider a general model of boundedly rational opinion formation in social networks. We show that long run opinions are extremely vulnerable to unilateral subtle manipulation. For a given updating system, any agent can drive the long run opinions of all agents to an arbitrary desired opinion,...