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Gender-based discrepancies in the algorithmic delivery of political ads on social media
Dominik Bär, Francesco Corso, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +2
Social media has become a key channel for political advertising during election campaigns. However, algorithmic biases in the delivery of these ads may distort the public's exposur…
Learning Perspectivist Social Meaning via Demographic-Conditioned Fusion Embeddings
Amanda Cercas Curry, Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello +1
Social meaning in language is inherently perspectival, varying across annotator backgrounds, demographics, and ideological positions. However, most NLP systems collapse this variat…
Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Mapping the Relational Harms of QAnon Radicalization
Bich Ngoc Doan, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Giuseppe Russo
Large-scale computational research on conspiracy theories has focused exclusively on believers' online behavior, leaving the harm experienced by those closest to them under-examine…
Effects of Algorithmic Visibility on Conspiracy Communities: Reddit after Epstein's 'Suicide'
Asja Attanasio, Francesco Corso, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
Following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the subreddit r/conspiracy experienced a significant visibility shock that brought mainstream users into direct contact with established con…
Bias and Identifiability in the Bounded Confidence Model
Claudio Borile, Jacopo Lenti, Valentina Ghidini +2
Opinion dynamics models such as the bounded confidence models (BCMs) describe how a population can reach consensus, fragmentation, or polarization, depending on a few parameters. C…
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…
Moral Judgments in Online Discourse are not Biased by Gender
Lorenzo Betti, Paolo Bajardi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
The interaction between social norms and gender roles prescribes gender-specific behaviors that influence moral judgments. Here, we study how moral judgments are biased by the gend…
Systematic discrepancies in the delivery of political ads on Facebook and Instagram
Dominik Bär, Francesco Pierri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales +1
Political advertising on social media has become a central element in election campaigns. However, granular information about political advertising on social media was previously u…