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20182020
most citedThe COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic

1.7k citations · 2.9k across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SI2020

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…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 1.1k cited

Evidence of economic segregation from mobility lockdown during COVID-19 epidemic

Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri, Matteo Cinelli +8

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, National governments have applied lockdown restrictions to reduce the infection rate. We perform a massive analysis on near real-time Italian…

cs.SI2020★ 1.7k cited

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…

cs.SI2019★ 130 cited

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…

cs.SI2018★ 3 cited

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…

cs.SI2018

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…