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A Behavioural Analysis of Credulous Twitter Users
Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi +1
Thanks to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, people can know facts and events that otherwise would have been silenced. However, social media significantly contribute also to f…
Credulous Users and Fake News: a Real Case Study on the Propagation in Twitter
Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola
Recent studies have confirmed a growing trend, especially among youngsters, of using Online Social Media as favourite information platform at the expense of traditional mass media.…
How many bots are you following?
Alessandro Balestrucci
Social Media are evolving as a pervasive source of news able to reach a larger audience through their spreading power. The main drawback is given by the presence of malicious accou…
Do you really follow them? Automatic detection of credulous Twitter users
Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi +1
Online Social Media represent a pervasive source of information able to reach a huge audience. Sadly, recent studies show how online social bots (automated, often malicious account…