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Online conspiracy communities are more resilient to deplatforming
Corrado Monti, Matteo Cinelli, Carlo Valensise +2
Online social media foster the creation of active communities around shared narratives. Such communities may turn into incubators for conspiracy theories -- some spreading violent…
Large-scale photonic natural language processing
Carlo Michele Valensise, Ivana Grecco, Davide Pierangeli +1
Modern machine learning applications require huge artificial networks demanding in computational power and memory. Light-based platforms promise ultra-fast and energy-efficient har…
The drivers of online polarization: fitting models to data
Carlo Michele Valensise, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
Users online tend to join polarized groups of like-minded peers around shared narratives, forming echo chambers. The echo chamber effect and opinion polarization may be driven by s…
Lack of evidence for correlation between COVID-19 infodemic and vaccine acceptance
Carlo M. Valensise, Matteo Cinelli, Matthieu Nadini +6
How information consumption affects behaviour is an open and widely debated research question. A popular hypothesis states that the so-called infodemic has a substantial impact on…
News consumption and social media regulations policy
Gabriele Etta, Matteo Cinelli, Alessandro Galeazzi +3
Users online tend to consume information adhering to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. During the COVID-19 pandemic, users get exposed to a massive amou…
Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution
Carlo Michele Valensise, Alessandra Serra, Alessandro Galeazzi +3
On the Internet, information circulates fast and widely, and the form of content adapts to comply with users' cognitive abilities. Memes are an emerging aspect of the internet syst…
Evidence of economic segregation from mobility lockdown during COVID-19 epidemic
Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri, Matteo Cinelli +8
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, National governments have applied lockdown restrictions to reduce the infection rate. We perform a massive analysis on near real-time Italian…
The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic
Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi +6
We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the CO…
Drifts and Shifts: Characterizing the Evolution of Users Interests on Reddit
Carlo Michele Valensise, Matteo Cinelli, Alessandro Galeazzi +1
Selective exposure is the main driver for the economy of attention when consuming online content. We select information adhering to our system of beliefs and ignore dissenting info…