  It is quite common that guides are introduced to suppress the information
spreading in modern society for different purposes. In this paper, an
agent-based model is established to quantitatively analyze the impacts of
suppressing guides on information spreading. We find that the spreading
threshold depends on the attractiveness of the information and the topology of
the social network with no suppressing guides at all. Usually, one would expect
that the existence of suppressing guides in the spreading procedure may result
in less diffusion of information within the overall network. However, we find
that sometimes the opposite is true: the manipulating nodes of suppressing
guides may lead to more extensive information spreading when there are
audiences with the reversal mind. These results can provide valuable
theoretical references to public opinion guidance on various information, e.g.,
rumor or news spreading.
