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CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines
Matthew R. DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Bao Tran Truong +7
With a substantial proportion of the population currently hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine, it is important that people have access to accurate information. However, there is…
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…
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook
Kai-Cheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Pik-Mai Hui +4
The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related misinformation -- the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic -- that makes populations more vulnerable to the…
Information disorders on Italian Facebook during COVID-19 infodemic
Alessandro Celestini, Marco Di Giovanni, Stefano Guarino +1
In this work we carry out an exploratory analysis of online conversations on the Italian Facebook during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the circulation of controversial t…
Human Mobility in Response to COVID-19 in France, Italy and UK
Alessandro Galeazzi, Matteo Cinelli, Giovanni Bonaccorsi +5
The policies implemented to hinder the COVID-19 outbreak represent one of the largest critical events in history. The understanding of this process is fundamental for crafting and…
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…