There have been growing concerns regarding the potential impact of social media on
democracy and public debate. While some theorists have claimed that ICTs and social …

With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information
disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening …

Language models (LMs) are pretrained on diverse data sources, including news, discussion
forums, books, and online encyclopedias. A significant portion of this data includes opinions …

Social media may limit the exposure to diverse perspectives and favor the formation of
groups of like-minded users framing and reinforcing a shared narrative, that is, echo …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles
on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues …

Social media has played a pivotal role in polarising views on politics, climate change, and
more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Social media induced polarisation (SMIP) poses …

Despite AI-driven recommendation algorithms being widely adopted to counter information
overload, substantial evidence suggests that they are building cocoons of homogeneous …

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 …

The reappearance of measles in the US and Europe, a disease considered eliminated in
early 2000s, has been accompanied by a growing debate on the merits of vaccination on …