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Characterizing Engagement Dynamics across Topics on Facebook
Gabriele Etta, Emanuele Sangiorgio, Niccolò Di Marco +4
Social media platforms heavily changed how users consume and digest information and, thus, how the popularity of topics evolves. In this paper, we explore the interplay between the…
Human Mobility in Response to COVID-19 in France, Italy and UK
Alessandro Galeazzi, Matteo Cinelli, Giovanni Bonaccorsi +5
The policies implemented to hinder the COVID-19 outbreak represent one of the largest critical events in history. The understanding of this process is fundamental for crafting and…
The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic
Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi +6
We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the CO…
Selective Exposure shapes the Facebook News Diet
Matteo Cinelli, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ana Lucia Schmidt +3
The social brain hypothesis fixes to 150 the number of social relationships we are able to maintain. Similar cognitive constraints emerge in several aspects of our daily life, from…
Lexical convergence and collective identities on Facebook
Emanuele Brugnoli, Matteo Cinelli, Fabiana Zollo +2
Recent studies, targeting Facebook, showed the tendency of users to interact with information adhering to their preferred narrative and to ignore dissenting information. Primarily…
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 Rank: A Study on European News Consumption on Facebook
Ana Lucía Schmidt, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala +1
The advent of WWW changed the way we can produce and access information. Recent studies showed that users tend to select information that is consistent with their system of beliefs…
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…
Polarization of the Vaccination Debate on Facebook
Ana Lucia Schmidt, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala +2
Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential powerful influence…
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 (…
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…
Viral Misinformation: The Role of Homophily and Polarization
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Alessandro Bessi, Guido Caldarelli +5
The spreading of unsubstantiated rumors on online social networks (OSN) either unintentionally or intentionally (e.g., for political reasons or even trolling) can have serious cons…
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…
Science vs Conspiracy: collective narratives in the age of (mis)information
Alessandro Bessi, Mauro Coletto, George Alexandru Davidescu +3
The large availability of user provided contents on online social media facilitates people aggregation around common interests, worldviews and narratives. However, in spite of the…