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FakeNewsLab: Experimental Study on Biases and Pitfalls Preventing us from Distinguishing True from False News
Giancarlo Ruffo, Alfonso Semeraro
Misinformation posting and spreading in Social Media is ignited by personal decisions on the truthfulness of news that may cause wide and deep cascades at a large scale in a fracti…
Studying Fake News Spreading, Polarisation Dynamics, and Manipulation by Bots: a Tale of Networks and Language
Giancarlo Ruffo, Alfonso Semeraro, Anastasia Giachanou +1
With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening our…
The Impact of Disinformation on a Controversial Debate on Social Media
Salvatore Vilella, Alfonso Semeraro, Daniela Paolotti +1
In this work we study how pervasive is the presence of disinformation in the Italian debate around immigration on Twitter and the role of automated accounts in the diffusion of suc…
PyPlutchik: visualising and comparing emotion-annotated corpora
Alfonso Semeraro, Salvatore Vilella, Giancarlo Ruffo
The increasing availability of textual corpora and data fetched from social networks is fuelling a huge production of works based on the model proposed by psychologist Robert Plutc…