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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…
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…
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…
Modelling Infodemics on a Global Scale: A 30 Countries Study using Epidemiological and Social Listening Data
Edoardo Loru, Marco Delmastro, Francesco Gesualdo +1
Infodemics are a threat to public health, arising from multiple interacting phenomena occurring both online and offline. The continuous feedback loops between the digital informati…
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…