A Loopy Belief Propagation Factor Graph Simulation of My Grandma Nonna’s Insane Facebook Feed
Dr. Zark Muckerberg1
1 Department of Social De-Engineering, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract
The content emerging from my Grandma Nonna’s Facebook feed has been becoming alarmingly more and more insane. Though she has historically been a loving grandmother, too apolitical and polite to say anything controversial, her feed has been fast filling up with emotionally charged political dank memes completely uncharacteristic of historic Grandma Nonna data[1]. Worryingly, her extreme political rhetoric has oddly emerged from extreme right and left viewpoints, socially isolating her from her weekly card and Zumba groups. My fridge is fast filling up with her pot roasts and potato salads left unconsumed, a clear indicator of drama at the church potluck[2]. By abusing a Loopy Belief Propagation (LBP) bidirectional factor graph, this paper successfully...