Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse,,–and
their influence on social dynamics,,,–, especially in the context of toxicity,–. Here, to better …

The growing interconnections among societies have facilitated the emergence of systemic
crises, ie, shocks that rapidly spread around the world and cause major disruptions …

Implications In psychological experiments, participants are approximately as likely to accept
a piece of fake news as they are to reject a piece of true news (Altay et al., 2021a; …

A large body of research has found that people's beliefs in conspiracy theories about
infectious diseases negatively impacts their health behaviors concerning vaccination …

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

The adoption of prophylaxis attitudes, such as social isolation and use of face masks, to
mitigate epidemic outbreaks strongly depends on the support of the population. In this work …

COVID-19 vaccines have been largely debated by the press. To understand how
mainstream and alternative media debated vaccines, we introduce a paradigm …

Social media platforms heavily changed how users consume and digest information and,
thus, how the popularity of topics evolves. In this paper, we explore the interplay between …

Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) offer new means for political communications that
have quickly begun to play crucial roles in political campaigns, due to their pervasiveness …

When the threat of COVID-19 became widely acknowledged, many hoped that this
pandemic would squash “the anti-vaccine movement”. However, when vaccines started …