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Deciphering Social Behaviour: a Novel Biological Approach For Social Users Classification
Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Marinella Petrocchi +1
Social media platforms continue to struggle with the growing presence of social bots-automated accounts that can influence public opinion and facilitate the spread of disinformatio…
Evaluation of Reliability Criteria for News Publishers with Large Language Models
Manuel Pratelli, John Bianchi, Fabio Pinelli +1
In this study, we investigate the use of a large language model to assist in the evaluation of the reliability of the vast number of existing online news publishers, addressing the…
A Proposal for Uncovering Hidden Social Bots via Genetic Similarity
Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Marinella Petrocchi +1
Social media platforms face an ongoing challenge in combating the proliferation of social bots, automated accounts that are also known to distort public opinion and support the spr…
Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. Election: swing vs. safe states
Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Saracco +1
For U.S. presidential elections, most states use the so-called winner-take-all system, in which the state's presidential electors are awarded to the winning political party in the…
Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions
Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi
With the primary goal of raising readers' awareness of misinformation phenomena, extensive efforts have been made by both academic institutions and independent organizations to dev…
Evaluating Trustworthiness of Online News Publishers via Article Classification
John Bianchi, Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi +1
The proliferation of low-quality online information in today's era has underscored the need for robust and automatic mechanisms to evaluate the trustworthiness of online news publi…