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Persistent Structural Inequality of Online Interactions Across Platforms
Giulio Pecile, Edoardo Di Martino, Edoardo Loru +3
User interactions on social media platforms are unevenly distributed: a small subset of users consistently captures most of the activity, while the majority remains marginal. Altho…
Hyperactive Minority Alters the Stability of Community Notes
Jacopo Nudo, Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Edoardo Loru +3
As platforms increasingly scale down professional fact-checking, community-based alternatives are promoted as more transparent and democratic. The main substitute being proposed is…
The Statistical Signature of LLMs
Ortal Hadad, Edoardo Loru, Jacopo Nudo +3
Large language models generate text through probabilistic sampling from high-dimensional distributions, yet how this process reshapes the structural statistical organization of lan…
Wikipedia and Grokipedia: A Comparison of Human and Generative Encyclopedias
Ortal Hadad, Edoardo Loru, Jacopo Nudo +3
We present a comparative analysis of Wikipedia and Grokipedia to examine how generative mediation alters content selection, textual rewriting, narrative structure, and evaluative f…
Patterns, Models, and Challenges in Online Social Media: A Survey
Niccolò Di Marco, Anita Bonetti, Edoardo Di Martino +10
The rise of digital platforms has enabled the large scale observation of individual and collective behavior through high resolution interaction data. This development has opened ne…
Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru +3
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidentia…
The simulation of judgment in LLMs
Edoardo Loru, Jacopo Nudo, Niccolò Di Marco +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in evaluative processes, from information filtering to assessing and addressing knowledge gaps through explanation and credib…
Decoding Musical Evolution Through Network Science
Niccolo' Di Marco, Edoardo Loru, Alessandro Galeazzi +2
Music has always been central to human culture, reflecting and shaping traditions, emotions, and societal changes. Technological advancements have transformed how music is created…
Modelling infodemics on a global scale: A 30 countries study using epidemiological and social listening data
Edoardo Loru, Marco Delmastro, Francesco Gesualdo +1
Infodemics represent a significant threat to public health, arising from complex interactions between online and offline phenomena. The continuous feedback loops between digital in…
Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media
Edoardo Loru, Alessandro Galeazzi, Anita Bonetti +6
The abundance of information on social media has reshaped public discussions, shifting attention to the mechanisms that drive online discourse. This study analyzes large-scale Twit…
The Evolution of Language in Social Media Comments
Niccolò Di Marco, Edoardo Loru, Anita Bonetti +3
Understanding the impact of digital platforms on user behavior presents foundational challenges, including issues related to polarization, misinformation dynamics, and variation in…
The influence of coordinated behavior on toxicity
Edoardo Loru, Matteo Cinelli, Maurizio Tesconi +1
In the intricate landscape of social media, genuine content dissemination may be altered by a number of threats. Coordinated Behavior (CB), defined as orchestrated efforts by entit…