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That paper is... something.
Basically all that calculus to say that individuals are influenced most by their closest peers and allow for more difference of opinion from them than strangers, therefore "agents" of a state (not kidding) should exploit this and find some way to use person-to-person social connections as a more ~~covert~~ decentralized way to manipulate people.
Pretty fucked tbh, and the Elgin airbase credit is there (more concerningly it's the research lab Munitions Directorate). The way things are going, I'm not convinced they'll ever find that "directed spanning tree" of influence that glowies are praying for. They've also got a whole paragraph of assumptions, like "the social states of leaders are immutable". LOL maybe they're not sending their best.