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Public Health"],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Public health emergencies can generate verified sharing, opportunistic dissemination, and strategic silence within the same communication environment, yet diffusion-centered approaches offer limited explanation of how these contrasting behaviors emerge together or change as communication relationships evolve.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study develops an adaptive-network evolutionary game in which individuals choose among verified\/corrective sharing, opportunistic sharing, and silence. The model links information value, verification burden, attention incentives, targeted sanctions, and participation-related liability to local interaction and adaptive rewiring.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Valuable and low-burden credible information favors verified sharing, whereas strong attention incentives favor opportunistic dissemination. Targeted accountability can redirect behavior toward credible participation, while generalized liability weakens good-faith sharing and, when combined with broader withdrawal incentives, can contribute to information vacuums.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>By separating information quality, information absence, and structural connectivity, the study shifts attention from diffusion volume to the joint evolution of behavior and communication relationships. 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