The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Social media are often accused of worsening the quality of online debate. In this paper, we
focus on group polarization in the context of social media-enabled interaction, a …

Social media plays a significant role during pandemics such as COVID-19, as it enables
people to share news as well as personal experiences and viewpoints with one another in …

An intensely debated topic is whether political polarization on social media is on the rise. We
can investigate this question only if we can quantify polarization, by taking into account how …

Users' polarization and confirmation bias play a key role in misinformation spreading on
online social media. Our aim is to use this information to determine in advance potential …

Which topics spark the most heated debates on social media? Identifying those topics is not
only interesting from a societal point of view but also allows the filtering and aggregation of …

This article is a systematic large-scale study of the reasons driving political fragmentation on
social media. Making use of a comparative dataset of the Twitter discussion activities of 115 …

Society is often polarized by controversial issues that split the population into groups with
opposing views. When such issues emerge on social media, we often observe the creation …

Political polarization is a social phenomenon that has several consequences in peoples'
lives and whose nature is not completely understood. Here, we develop a methodology to …

We study how the structure of social media networks and the presence of fake news affects
the degree of misinformation and polarization in a society. For that, we analyze a dynamic …