Belief in conspiracy theories and non-normative behavior

L Pummerer - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
There are many examples of people believing in conspiracy theories showing non-
normative behaviors. But why is this the case? The current contribution proposes that the …

Propaganda and misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

F Pierri, L Luceri, N Jindal, E Ferrara - Proceedings of the 15th ACM web …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Online social media represent an oftentimes unique source of information, and having
access to reliable and unbiased content is crucial, especially during crises and contentious …

Retweet-bert: political leaning detection using language features and information diffusion on social networks

J Jiang, X Ren, E Ferrara - … of the international AAAI conference on web …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Estimating the political leanings of social media users is a challenging and ever more
pressing problem given the increase in social media consumption. We introduce Retweet …

How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events

F Pierri, L Luceri, E Chen, E Ferrara - EPJ Data Science, 2023 - epjds.epj.org
Social media moderation policies are often at the center of public debate, and their
implementation and enactment are sometimes surrounded by a veil of mystery …

Did Covid-19 blur partisan boundaries? A comparison of partisan affinity and source heterophily in online alternative news-sharing networks before and during the …

JB Kristensen, FM Henriksen… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores partisan and group heterophily within cross-platform online communities
that share alternative news media content in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Austria. The …

Emotional profiling and cognitive networks unravel how mainstream and alternative press framed AstraZeneca, Pfizer and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

A Semeraro, S Vilella, G Ruffo, M Stella - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been largely debated by the press. To understand how
mainstream and alternative media debated vaccines, we introduce a paradigm …

HPV and COVID-19 vaccines: Social media use, confidence, and intentions among parents living in different community types in the United States

JA Manganello, SC Chiang, H Cowlin… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2023 - Springer
Our study measured parental confidence and intention/uptake of two adolescent vaccines
(HPV and COVID-19), focusing on differences among community types including urban …

Partisan asymmetries in exposure to misinformation

A Rao, F Morstatter, K Lerman - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Online misinformation is believed to have contributed to vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-
19 pandemic, highlighting concerns about social media's destabilizing role in public life …

Twitter spam and false accounts prevalence, detection and characterization: A survey

E Ferrara - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05913, 2022 - arxiv.org
The issue of quantifying and characterizing various forms of social media manipulation and
abuse has been at the forefront of the computational social science research community for …

Polarised social media discourse during COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from YouTube

S Gupta, G Jain, AA Tiwari - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention on social media
platforms as these platforms provide users unparalleled access to 'information'from around …