no code implementations • 19 Jan 2021 • Matthew DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Bao Truong, John Bollenbacher, David Axelrod, Niklas Loynes, Cristopher Torres-Lugo, Kai-Cheng Yang, Fil Menczer, John Bryden
In this paper, we present the CoVaxxy dataset, a growing collection of English-language Twitter posts about COVID-19 vaccines.
Social and Information Networks
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2020 • Francesco Pierri, Carlo Piccardi, Stefano Ceri
We tackle the problem of classifying news articles pertaining to disinformation vs mainstream news by solely inspecting their diffusion mechanisms on Twitter.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2019 • Francesco Pierri, Stefano Ceri
In the past few years, the research community has dedicated growing interest to the issue of false news circulating on social networks.
Social and Information Networks Computers and Society