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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…
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 (…
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…