Search Results for author: Walter Quattrociocchi

Found 5 papers, 2 papers with code

The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic

3 code implementations10 Mar 2020 Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi, Carlo Michele Valensise, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ana Lucia Schmidt, Paola Zola, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala

We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab.

Social and Information Networks Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Physics and Society

The Limited Reach of Fake News on Twitter during 2019 European Elections

1 code implementation27 Nov 2019 Matteo Cinelli, Stefano Cresci, Alessandro Galeazzi, Walter Quattrociocchi, Maurizio Tesconi

The advent of social media changed the way we consume content favoring a disintermediated access and production.

Social and Information Networks Computers and Society Physics and Society

RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter

no code implementations12 Feb 2019 Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti, Walter Quattrociocchi, Maurizio Tesconi

We design a novel visualization that we leverage to highlight benign and malicious patterns of retweeting activity.

Clustering Time Series +1

Polarization and Fake News: Early Warning of Potential Misinformation Targets

no code implementations5 Feb 2018 Michela Del Vicario, Walter Quattrociocchi, Antonio Scala, Fabiana Zollo

The novelty of our approach consists in taking into account a series of characteristics related to users behavior on online social media, making a first, important step towards the smoothing of polarization and the mitigation of misinformation phenomena.

Social and Information Networks

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