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Then, four groups of experiment by using MATLAB were conducted, and the results show that the credibility of information is a key factor affects the speed of opinion, and also very important for the direction of the opinion dynamic of the whole network. Online opinions can easily impact by the gossip information, and extreme gossip information causes serious division of opinion group, and the whole network opinions cannot be converged even in a quite long-time iteration. Super opinion leaders have the ability to balance the influence of gossip, even in an online environment full of gossip information. 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