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Digital Persuasion: Understanding the Impact of Online Influencers on Public Opinion
Omran Berjawi, Rida Khatoun, Giuseppe Fenza
The studying of opinion dynamics and its propagation within social networks is crucial for addressing a wide range of challenges, including political polarization, public health, a…
BotVerse: Real-Time Event-Driven Simulation of Social Agents
Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Angelo Spognardi +1
BotVerse is a scalable, event-driven framework for high-fidelity social simulation using LLM-based agents. It addresses the ethical risks of studying autonomous agents on live netw…
Evaluation of Reliability Criteria for News Publishers with Large Language Models
Manuel Pratelli, John Bianchi, Fabio Pinelli +1
In this study, we investigate the use of a large language model to assist in the evaluation of the reliability of the vast number of existing online news publishers, addressing the…
Leveraging Content Producer Networks and User Perception to Detect Online Discursive Communities
Stefano Guarino, Ayoub Mounim, Guido Caldarelli +1
Online discussions are often characterized by strong behavioral asymmetries: a relatively small fraction of users actively produces content, while the majority primarily consumes a…
Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. Election: swing vs. safe states
Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Saracco +1
For U.S. presidential elections, most states use the so-called winner-take-all system, in which the state's presidential electors are awarded to the winning political party in the…
The Governance of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: A Study of Contributors' Influence, Networks, and Shifts in Voting Power
Stefan Kitzler, Stefano Balietti, Pietro Saggese +2
We present a study analyzing the voting behavior of contributors, or vested users, in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). We evaluate their involvement in decision-makin…