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Uncovering the Sociodemographic Fabric of Reddit
Federico Cinus, Corrado Monti, Paolo Bajardi +1
Understanding the sociodemographic composition of online platforms is essential for accurately interpreting digital behavior and its societal implications. Yet, current methods oft…
Minimizing Polarization and Disagreement in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model with Unknown Innate Opinions
Federico Cinus, Atsushi Miyauchi, Yuko Kuroki +1
The bulk of the literature on opinion optimization in social networks adopts the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) opinion dynamics model, in which the innate opinions of all nodes are known:…
Uncovering Coordinated Cross-Platform Information Operations Threatening the Integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Online Discussion
Marco Minici, Luca Luceri, Federico Cinus +1
Information Operations (IOs) pose a significant threat to the integrity of democratic processes, with the potential to influence election-related online discourse. In anticipation…
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Federico Cinus, Marco Minici, Luca Luceri +1
Coordinated information operations remain a persistent challenge on social media, despite platform efforts to curb them. While previous research has primarily focused on identifyin…
Link Polarity Prediction from Sparse and Noisy Labels via Multiscale Social Balance
Marco Minici, Federico Cinus, Francesco Bonchi +1
Signed Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) have recently gained attention as an effective tool for several learning tasks on signed networks, i.e., graphs where edges have an associated…
Navigating Multidimensional Ideologies with Reddit's Political Compass: Economic Conflict and Social Affinity
Ernesto Colacrai, Federico Cinus, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
The prevalent perspective in quantitative research on opinion dynamics flattens the landscape of the online political discourse into a traditional left--right dichotomy. While this…