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Optimal and heuristic strategies for evaluating the influence of coordinated behavior in information cascades and retweet networks
Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli, Shinichi Nakano +1
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) has become a major concern in online social platforms, yet its actual impact on information diffusion remains poorly understood. Existing res…
Reddit's Globalization over Twenty Years: Inferring Community Time Zone from Activity Timestamps
Franco Della Negra, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli
Online communities are a global phenomenon, but assessing their actual geographical spread requires accurate and scalable measurement. We propose and evaluate methods that infer th…
Hyperactive Minority Alters the Stability of Community Notes
Jacopo Nudo, Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Edoardo Loru +3
As platforms increasingly scale down professional fact-checking, community-based alternatives are promoted as more transparent and democratic. The main substitute being proposed is…
Wikipedia and Grokipedia: A Comparison of Human and Generative Encyclopedias
Ortal Hadad, Edoardo Loru, Jacopo Nudo +3
We present a comparative analysis of Wikipedia and Grokipedia to examine how generative mediation alters content selection, textual rewriting, narrative structure, and evaluative f…
Patterns, Models, and Challenges in Online Social Media: A Survey
Niccolò Di Marco, Anita Bonetti, Edoardo Di Martino +10
The rise of digital platforms has enabled the large scale observation of individual and collective behavior through high resolution interaction data. This development has opened ne…
Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru +3
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidentia…