Fig. 5

Heatmap of different initial opinion distributions. The principal analysis assumed that the average opinion in the population is N(0.5, 0.2) and the bot opinion is 0.8. Here, we explore the sensitivity of our results to different values of agent and bot opinion. This figure shows a heatmap where the x-axis shows the bot’s different opinion values and the y-axis shows different population average opinion values. The results remain qualitatively similar to those presented in the main text. The bot has a more substantial effect on the population when its opinion is more distant from the average opinion of the population