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The Anatomy of Brexit Debate on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Fabiana Zollo, Guido Caldarelli +2
Nowadays users get informed and shape their opinion through social media. However, the disintermediated access to contents does not guarantee quality of information. Selective expo…
Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Gianna Vivaldo, Alessandro Bessi +4
Recent findings showed that users on Facebook tend to select information that adhere to their system of beliefs and to form polarized groups -- i.e., echo chambers. Such a tendency…
Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube
Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario +5
On social media algorithms for content promotion, accounting for users preferences, might limit the exposure to unsolicited contents. In this work, we study how the same contents (…