With the spread of web 2.0 and digital technologies, the divide between producers and consumers – of culture, of science, of news – has become…
Posts published in “misinformation”
Giancarlo Ruffo and Alfonso Semeraro will be giving a tutorial on the current research on misinformation, with a focus on fake-news spreading dynamics and fact-checking.…
ARCS PhD students, post-docs, and faculty members will give 1 regular talk and present 2 posters at NetSci 2020, held online this year due to COVID-19. Our…
After many months (if not years) of design, check, re-design cycles, we are finally proud to announce that our test “”Can you spot fake-news?” is…
Our latest “Fact-checking strategies to limit urban legends spreading in a segregated society” is finally out and accessible as open access. Published by Applied Network…
Our paper “Network segregation in a model of misinformation and fact-checking” has been published on line in the Computational Social Science Journal (Springer). Co-authors are…
We are very proud to announce that Marcella Tambuscio has received her Ph.D. degree from the examination board (Prof. Alessandro Rizzo, Prof. Rosalba Giugno, Prof.…
Our paper “Fact-checking Effect on Viral Hoaxes: A Model of Misinformation Spread in Social Networks“, authors: Marcella Tambuscio, Giancarlo Ruffo, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer,…