International audienceInformation can flow in a network through communication links connecting the nodes. The topology of connections and the strength of the links are two factors that effect the speed of spread of information in the network. In this paper we show that the topology can have stronger effect on the information spread than the strength of the links. In particular, we consider an iterative belief propagation process as in average consensus protocols where each node in the network has a certain belief (a real number), and with every iteration each node updates its own belief with the weighted average of its belief and the ones of it is connected to. The speed of spread of beliefs in the network is governed by the speed of conver...