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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…
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 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…