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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…
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…
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…