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 …

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 …

Strategic narratives help shape wars. In modern history, strategic narratives were used
during the Cold War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War to justify military invasions …

One of the most widely used content types in internet misinformation campaigns is memes.
Since they can readily reach a big number of users on social media sites, they are most …

The spread of misinformation on social media is a pressing societal problem that platforms,
policymakers, and researchers continue to grapple with. As a countermeasure, recent works …

Social media platforms disseminate extensive volumes of online content, including true and,
in particular, false rumors. Previous literature has studied the diffusion of offline rumors, yet …

It is often thought that an external threat increases the internal cohesion of a nation, and thus
decreases polarization. We examine this proposition by analyzing NATO discussion …

Misinformation on social media presents a major threat to modern societies. While previous
research has analyzed the virality across true and false social media posts, not every …

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) presents large risks for society when it is used to create
fake news. A crucial factor for fake news to go viral on social media is that users share such …

We perform a multi-scale analysis of the geometric structure of the network of X (Twitter at
the time of data collection) interactions surrounding the Italian snap general elections of …