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most citedFlow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

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cs.SI2025

TROPIC - Trustworthiness Rating of Online Publishers through online Interactions Calculation

Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi

Existing methods for assessing the trustworthiness of news publishers face high costs and scalability issues. The tool presented in this paper supports the efforts of specialized o…

cs.SI2024★ 4 cited

Evaluation of Reliability Criteria for News Publishers with Large Language Models

Manuel Pratelli, John Bianchi, Fabio Pinelli +1

In this study, we investigate the use of a large language model to assist in the evaluation of the reliability of the vast number of existing online news publishers, addressing the…

cs.SI2024★ 7 cited

Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. Election: swing vs. safe states

Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Saracco +1

For U.S. presidential elections, most states use the so-called winner-take-all system, in which the state's presidential electors are awarded to the winning political party in the…

cs.SI2024

Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions

Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi

With the primary goal of raising readers' awareness of misinformation phenomena, extensive efforts have been made by both academic institutions and independent organizations to dev…

cs.SI2023★ 13 cited

Entropy-based detection of Twitter echo chambers

Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi

Echo chambers, i.e. clusters of users exposed to news and opinions in line with their previous beliefs, were observed in many online debates on social platforms. We propose a compl…

cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Swinging in the States: Does disinformation on Twitter mirror the US presidential election system?

Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Saracco +1

For more than a decade scholars have been investigating the disinformation flow on social media contextually to societal events, like, e.g., elections. In this paper, we analyze th…

cs.SI2022★ 19 cited

Bow-Tie Structures of Twitter Discursive Communities

Mattia Mattei, Manuel Pratelli, Guido Caldarelli +2

In the analysis of Twitter debate, the recent literature focused on discursive communities, i.e. clusters of accounts interacting among themselves via retweets. In the present work…

cs.SI2020★ 59 cited

Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Guido Caldarelli, Rocco de Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi +2

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on every human activity and, because of the urgency of finding the proper responses to such an unprecedented emergency, it generated a diffused s…