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PopRank: Ranking pages' impact and users' engagement on Facebook
Andrea Zaccaria, Michela del Vicario, Walter Quattrociocchi +2
Users online tend to acquire information adhering to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. Such dynamics might affect page popularity. In this paper we intr…
Polarization and Fake News: Early Warning of Potential Misinformation Targets
Michela Del Vicario, Walter Quattrociocchi, Antonio Scala +1
Users polarization and confirmation bias play a key role in misinformation spreading on online social media. Our aim is to use this information to determine in advance potential ta…
Public discourse and news consumption on online social media: A quantitative, cross-platform analysis of the Italian Referendum
Michela Del Vicario, Sabrina Gaito, Walter Quattrociocchi +2
The rising attention to the spreading of fake news and unsubstantiated rumors on online social media and the pivotal role played by confirmation bias led researchers to investigate…
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…
Modeling confirmation bias and polarization
Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala, Guido Caldarelli +2
Online users tend to select claims that adhere to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. Confirmation bias, indeed, plays a pivotal role in viral phenomena.…
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 (…
Debunking in a World of Tribes
Fabiana Zollo, Alessandro Bessi, Michela Del Vicario +5
Recently a simple military exercise on the Internet was perceived as the beginning of a new civil war in the US. Social media aggregate people around common interests eliciting a c…
Echo chambers in the age of misinformation
Michela Del Vicario, Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo +5
The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. Despite the enthusi…
Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation
Fabiana Zollo, Petra Kralj Novak, Michela Del Vicario +5
According to the World Economic Forum, the diffusion of unsubstantiated rumors on online social media is one of the main threats for our society. The disintermediated paradigm of c…
Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation
Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario +3
Social media enabled a direct path from producer to consumer of contents changing the way users get informed, debate, and shape their worldviews. Such a {\em disintermediation} wea…
Everyday the Same Picture: Popularity and Content Diversity
Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario +4
Facebook is flooded by diverse and heterogeneous content, from kittens up to music and news, passing through satirical and funny stories. Each piece of that corpus reflects the het…
Structural Patterns of the Occupy Movement on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Qian Zhang, Alessandro Bessi +4
In this work we study a peculiar example of social organization on Facebook: the Occupy Movement -- i.e., an international protest movement against social and economic inequality o…
Social determinants of content selection in the age of (mis)information
Alessandro Bessi, Guido Caldarelli, Michela Del Vicario +2
Despite the enthusiastic rhetoric about the so called \emph{collective intelligence}, conspiracy theories -- e.g. global warming induced by chemtrails or the link between vaccines…