>All data necessary to reproduce the results are available at https://github.com/jplotkin/InformationGerrymandering https://github.com/jplotkin/InformationGerry

>All data necessary to reproduce the results are available at https://github.com/jplotkin/InformationGerrymandering https://github.com/jplotkin/InformationGerrymandering >For example, when just a few yellow-party zealots were deployed strategically among a larger number of undecided players in the purple party, these bots were able to sway the majority opinion towards the yellow party. This was true even when the parties had exactly the same number of members, and when each player had the same amount of influence. I'd like to know a little more about the experiment, specifically how much information was available to individual voters. Did they know the votes of specific other voters? Of their party specifically? Or just the overall polling situation? Were they allowed to communicate, like through a chat box or something? Without knowing these details I'm finding it a little hard to understand how these few 'planted' zealots were able to influence the result that strongly.