4 papers
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote +8
Coordinated campaigns on social media play a critical role in shaping crisis information environments, particularly during the onset of conflicts when uncertainty is high and verif…
Detectability threshold in weighted modular networks
Filippo Radicchi, Filipi N. Silva, Alessandro Flammini +2
We study the necessary condition to detect, by means of spectral modularity optimization, the ground-truth partition in networks generated according to the weighted planted-partiti…
Scale invariance and statistical significance in complex weighted networks
Filipi N. Silva, Sadamori Kojaku, Alessandro Flammini +2
Most networks encountered in nature, society, and technology have weighted edges, representing the strength of the interaction/association between their vertices. Randomizing the s…
The Rise of Bluesky
Ozgur Can Seckin, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Bao Tran Truong +5
This study investigates the rapid growth and evolving network structure of Bluesky from August 2023 to February 2025. Through multiple waves of user migrations, the platform has re…