Integrating Persuasion Theory into the Epidemiological Modelling of Health Misinformation Spread on Social Media

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arXiv:2608.15689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study presents a hybrid epidemiological and behavioural framework to simulate the spread of health misinformation on social media. We extend the classical Susceptible--Infected--Recovered (SIR) model to a six-compartment structure (SIRMMM), incorporating Misinformed Susceptible (MS), Misinformed Infected (MI), and Misinformed Recovered (MR) compartments to better reflect the dynamics of the misinformation lifecycle. To account for individual