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14 papers
Optimal and heuristic strategies for evaluating the influence of coordinated behavior in information cascades and retweet networks
Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli, Shinichi Nakano +1
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) has become a major concern in online social platforms, yet its actual impact on information diffusion remains poorly understood. Existing res…
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…
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…
Disc-Cover Complexity Trends in Music Illustrations from Sinatra to Swift
Nicolas Fracaro, Stefano Cecconello, Mauro Conti +2
The study of art evolution has provided valuable insights into societal change, often revealing long-term patterns of simplification and transformation. Album covers represent a di…
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…
Decoding Political Polarization in Social Media Interactions
Giulio Pecile, Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli +1
Social media platforms significantly influence ideological divisions by enabling users to select information that aligns with their beliefs and avoid opposing viewpoints. Analyzing…
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…
Mapping the Global Election Landscape on Social Media in 2024
Giulio Pecile, Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli +1
In 2024, half of the global population is expected to participate in elections, offering researchers a unique opportunity to study online information diffusion and user behavior. T…
Post-hoc evaluation of nodes influence in information cascades: the case of coordinated accounts
Niccolò Di Marco, Sara Brunetti, Matteo Cinelli +1
In the last years, social media has gained an unprecedented amount of attention, playing a pivotal role in shaping the contemporary landscape of communication and connection. Howev…
The Complexity of 2-Intersection Graphs of 3-Hypergraphs Recognition for Claw-free Graphs and triangulated Claw-free Graphs
Niccolò Di Marco, Andrea Frosini, Christophe Picouleau
Given a 3-uniform hypergraph H, its 2-intersection graph G has for vertex set the hyperedges of H and ee' is an edge of G whenever e and e' have exactly two common vertices in H. D…
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…
Users volatility on Reddit and Voat
Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli, Shayan Alipour +1
Social media platforms are like giant arenas where users can rely on different content and express their opinions through likes, comments, and shares. However, do users welcome dif…
Growing polarisation around climate change on social media
Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi, Maddalena Torricelli +8
Climate change and political polarisation are two of the 21st century's critical socio-political issues. Here, we investigate their intersection by studying the discussion around t…
Reliability of Content and Echo Chambers on YouTube during the COVID-19 Debate
Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
The spread of inaccurate and misleading information may alter behaviours and complicate crisis management, especially during an emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aim…