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ITA-ELECTION-2022: A multi-platform dataset of social media conversations around the 2022 Italian general election
Francesco Pierri, Geng Liu, Stefano Ceri
Online social media play a major role in shaping public discourse and opinion, especially during political events. We present the first public multi-platform dataset of Italian-lan…
VaccinItaly: monitoring Italian conversations around vaccines on Twitter and Facebook
Francesco Pierri, Andrea Tocchetti, Lorenzo Corti +4
We present VaccinItaly, a project which monitors Italian online conversations around vaccines, on Twitter and Facebook. We describe the ongoing data collection, which follows the S…
A multi-layer approach to disinformation detection on Twitter
Francesco Pierri, Carlo Piccardi, Stefano Ceri
We tackle the problem of classifying news articles pertaining to disinformation vs mainstream news by solely inspecting their diffusion mechanisms on Twitter. Our technique is inhe…
HoaxItaly: a collection of Italian disinformation and fact-checking stories shared on Twitter in 2019
Francesco Pierri, Alessandro Artoni, Stefano Ceri
We released over 1 million tweets shared during 2019 and containing links to thousands of news articles published on two classes of Italian outlets: (1) disinformation websites, i.…
Investigating Italian disinformation spreading on Twitter in the context of 2019 European elections
Francesco Pierri, Alessandro Artoni, Stefano Ceri
We investigate the presence (and the influence) of disinformation spreading on online social networks in Italy, in the5-month period preceding the 2019 European Parliament election…
Topology comparison of Twitter diffusion networks effectively reveals misleading information
Francesco Pierri, Carlo Piccardi, Stefano Ceri
In recent years, malicious information had an explosive growth in social media, with serious social and political backlashes. Recent important studies, featuring large-scale analys…