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# Co-Opetitive Bridging Structure in Rumor Cascades: A Multilayer Overlapping Community Approach with Information-Theoretic Characterization

Sun & Liu, 2026, Entropy — Network Science

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships)

## In short

A social system decomposes into overlapping camps (systems) whose members are cleanly separated by role (distinctions) and which relate to each other with opposite valence within versus across camp boundaries (relationships).

## What they found (results)

Across three Weibo rumor events, membership-entropy analysis of multilayer interaction networks showed a bimodal split between committed and bridging users, while a sentiment-based co-opetition matrix showed consistently cooperative interactions within camps and competitive interactions between them.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://doi.org/10.3390/e28090978)