4 papers
Evaluating the Simulation of Human Personality-Driven Susceptibility to Misinformation with LLMs
Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi
Large language models (LLMs) make it possible to generate synthetic behavioural data at scale, offering an ethical and low-cost alternative to human experiments. Whether such data…
On the efficacy of old features for the detection of new bots
Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi, Manuel Pratelli
For more than a decade now, academicians and online platform administrators have been studying solutions to the problem of bot detection. Bots are computer algorithms whose use is…
TROPIC - Trustworthiness Rating of Online Publishers through online Interactions Calculation
Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi
Existing methods for assessing the trustworthiness of news publishers face high costs and scalability issues. The tool presented in this paper supports the efforts of specialized o…
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…