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Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with News on Twitter
Jacopo D'Ignazi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano G. Beiró
This study uses sentiment analysis and the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) to characterise news content in social media and examine its association with user engagement. We employ N…
Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia
Jacopo D'Ignazi, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova +4
Over the last few years, verifying the credibility of information sources has become a fundamental need to combat disinformation. Here, we present a language-agnostic model designe…
Political Context of the European Vaccine Debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri +5
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears grew that making vaccination a political (instead of public health) issue may impact the efficacy of this life-saving intervention,…
Global misinformation spillovers in the online vaccination debate before and during COVID-19
Jacopo Lenti, Kyriaki Kalimeri, André Panisson +4
Anti-vaccination views pervade online social media, fueling distrust in scientific expertise and increasing vaccine-hesitant individuals. While previous studies focused on specific…
Advertisers Jump on Coronavirus Bandwagon: Politics, News, and Business
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri
In the age of social media, disasters and epidemics usher not only a devastation and affliction in the physical world, but also prompt a deluge of information, opinions, prognoses…