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Evaluating the effect of viral news on social media engagement
Emanuele Sangiorgio, Niccolò Di Marco, Gabriele Etta +3
This study examines Facebook and YouTube content from over a thousand news outlets in four European languages from 2018 to 2023, using a Bayesian structural time-series model to ev…
The Drivers of Global News Spreading Patterns
Shayan Alipour, Niccolò Di Marco, Michele Avalle +3
The web radically changed the dissemination of information and the global spread of news. In this study, we aim to reconstruct the connectivity patterns within nations shaping news…
Characterizing Engagement Dynamics across Topics on Facebook
Gabriele Etta, Emanuele Sangiorgio, Niccolò Di Marco +4
Social media platforms heavily changed how users consume and digest information and, thus, how the popularity of topics evolves. In this paper, we explore the interplay between the…
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…
Information Consumption and Social Response in a Segregated Environment: the Case of Gab
Gabriele Etta, Alessandro Galeazzi, Matteo Cinelli +2
Most of the information operations involve users who may foster polarization and distrust toward science and mainstream journalism, without these users being conscious of their rol…