10 papers
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…
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…
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…