Our study of 400 million tweets shows that the “war on science” is far more complex than a simple clash between truth and falsehood. 🔍 read more in our latest article magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/what... @ricgallotti.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social @vtraag.bsky.social

Q4. If AI is the answer to online disinfo, what role is left for human judgement in deciding what counts as trustworthy information? #AICODEPROJECT

Q5. Will AI tools empower citizens to spot disinfo themselves – or just hand more power to platforms and gatekeepers? #AICODEPROJECT

Q3. Can AI really foster trust online, or do we first need to rebuild trust in the people/institutions deploying it? #AICODEPROJECT

Q2. Is the biggest challenge building better AI, or convincing the public that AI-backed systems can be fair and transparent? #AICODEPROJECT

Q1. Can any tech stay ahead of disinformation tactics that evolve just as fast? #AICODEPROJECT

🚨 Finally our paper "Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli" is out 🤩 doi.org/10.1098/rsif... Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mobs-fbk.bsky.social @chub-fbk.bsky.social

Scale-free Points-of-Interest Distribution in a City Emerging from Homogeneous Poissonian-point Processes https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01699

Also seen yesterday at @css-conference.bsky.social a work on reinforcement learning applied to ants behaviour by Alessio Pitteri, our study of the historical evolution of EU projects by @verorsanigo.bsky.social and the study on Coordinated Behavior by @elisamurators.bsky.social #CCS2025

The studies presented analyse respectively: Twitter by @annabertani.bsky.social Telegram by @tlouf.bsky.social Mastodon by @arregui.bsky.social Youtube by @matteoscianna.bsky.social #CCS2025

Wide coverage of social media and disinformation analysis yesterday from our lab at the @css-conference.bsky.social, with four talks presenting our works associate to the European projects #AI4TRUST #AICODE_EU #HATEDEMICS

New pre-print out ! Work led by @eleandre.bsky.social, in collaboration with M. Napolitano and @ricgallotti.bsky.social. Using Foursquare data from Bologna, we find that the distribution of POIs follows a clear power-law pattern at the city scale. To explain this, we introduce a framework where ...

2nd keynote Manlio De Domenico discusses approaches to figure out functionalities of complex systems #CCS2025

Yesterday was our first day at @css-conference.bsky.social in Siena 🇮🇹. We presented on Telegram data collection @elisamurators.bsky.social , city growth @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social and urban traffic (Alberto Amaduzzi). Excited for 5 more talks today! #CCS2025

📣🚨 New work out on @plos.org Computational Biology! Excited and proud to have provided the world with more maps of Puglia🕷️ Thank you all @luzuzek.bsky.social Oriol Artime @ricgallotti.bsky.social @mtizzoni.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 💊main results below👇

Great energy at the poster session today! It was a pleasure to be part of it presenting our work "How to design a collection strategy for monitoring disinformation and hate speech in Telegram". Excited for round two tomorrow – see you all there! ☀️

This research was done by @luzuzek.bsky.social zek.bsky.social, Juan Pablo Bascur, @annabertani.bsky.social, and @ricgallotti.bsky.social. This project is supported by European Media and Information Fund. ⤴️

So excited to see this come together! 🎉 Our latest study explores the interplay between science and misinformation in public debates during COVID-19 🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01481 👇Take a look

New preprint! 🚨 We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before. 🧵 (1/10)

The Grand Amphithéâtre of @sorbonne-universite.fr is definitively not a bad venue for a the keynote session of @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social #Sunbelt2025

🚨 check out our latest work 👇🏼

Paris, croissants, and network science! 🌐✨ Presenting at #Sunbelt2025 on how domain-level signals help fact-checkers outsmart misinformation. Vive la vérité! @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social

🚨If you're around Paris come to see @tlouf.bsky.social talking today about the structure and dynamics of information flow on Telegram at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social and @css-fr.bsky.social

🎙️Busy morning today at @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social for CHuB talking about mis/disinformation on Twitter and Mastodon @ricgallotti.bsky.social @kaveh-kadkhoda.bsky.social @annabertani.bsky.social

I finally have the pleasure of attending Sunbelt in person for the first time, together with four members of my unit @chub-fbk.bsky.social This year among the organisers we also have many familiar faces such as @camcom.bsky.social , @chavalarias.org , Floriana Gargiulo and Emmanuel Lazega.

How do cities expand? Using surface growth physics, we found a unique exponent governing their local geometry. Instead, their dynamics range from smooth diffusion to abrupt coalescence, with demographic pressure driving where each city lands on that spectrum. arxiv.org/abs/2506.10656

Summer vibes in Trento ☀️ perfect for a CHuB-day at the Caldonazzo lake ⛰️🏖️ @ricgallotti.bsky.social @luzuzek.bsky.social @tlouf.bsky.social @andreaguizzo.bsky.social @ulyssemarquis.bsky.social

@css-conference.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social @ifisc.uib-csic.es @elsaarcaute.bsky.social @martikagv.bsky.social @andreaguizzo.bsky.social @isi.it

This new paper finds that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when prompted with basic sociodemographic data. @frasalvi.bsky.social @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI is more persuasive than a human in a debate, study finds wapo.st/4mjhHsV @ricgallotti.bsky.social: "We have clearly reached the technological level where it is possible to create a network of LLM-based automated accounts that are able to strategically nudge the public opinion in one direction."

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, can be more persuasive than humans 64% of the time in online debates when adapting their arguments based on personalised information about their opponents. go.nature.com/4j9ibyE 🧪

Millions of people argue with each other online every day, but remarkably few of them change someone’s mind. New research suggests that large language models might do a better job. The finding suggests that AI could become a powerful tool for persuading people, for better or worse.

AI can be more persuasive than humans in debates, scientists find

If you're interested in knowing more, you can find a more detailed breakdown on our methodology and results at: x.com/fraslv/statu... Or read the full paper at nature.com/articles/s41... Thanks to my amazing coauthors @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social Robert West

That raises urgent questions about possible misuse in political propaganda, misinformation, and election interference. Platforms and regulators should seriously consider these risks and step up in our discussion about guardrails, transparency, and accountability.

📢📜 Excited to share that our paper "On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4" has been published in Nature Human Behaviour! 🤖 Key takeaway: LLMs can already reach superhuman persuasiveness, especially when given access to personalized information www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in PNAS! 📢 lnkd.in/d7z2VEjh 👉 We show how combining individual & collective behavior boosts out-of-routine mobility prediction 👉 We found collective behavior strongly impacts individual mobility in dense urban areas. 👉 The model is robust to severe behavioral changes (e.g., COVID pandemic)

I just came across a paper full of hallucinated citations. www.nature.com/articles/s41... I have four urgent questions: 1) Which version of ChatGPT wrote this? 2) Which version of ChatGPT peer-reviewed it? 3) How many of these slip through “reputable” journals every day? 4) Are we being trolled?

🚨Proud to announce that UrbanSys will take place at CCS2025 @css-conference.bsky.social as a full day event! 🙌 🇪🇺🏃‍♂️Join us in Siena, Italy, on September 4 2025 and dive with us in the complexity of urban systems 🏙️🇮🇹 The call for abstracts is open! 👉 urban-sys-net.weebly.com/call-for-abs...

🚨 Just in time, 🎅! #NetSky #Complexity🧪 We compare human mobility datasets from 7 data-sources, tracing 500M+ ppl in 145 countries, to test that if statistical properties observed are robust regardless of data gathering & processing techniques. Guess what? 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... 1/

#workshop on #innovations for #transport and Sustainable #mobility, Bruneck. Today, day 2 @unibz.bsky.social @ricgallotti.bsky.social

We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉 complexity-core.github.io 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.

Last few days for applying to one of the two postdoctoral positions at my group: a) online social media and disinformation; b) human mobility. If you are at #ccs2014 @css-conference.bsky.social feel free to ask me any detail at coffee breaks! jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

🚨Last days (final deadline 29th June) to submit your abstract for the UrbanSys2024 Satellite at @css-conference.bsky.social !🚨 urban-sys-net.weebly.com/call-for-abs... Join our outstanding panel of speakers and dive into a day of research on Transport, Smart Cities, Complexity and Urban Networks.

The call for abstracts for UrbanSys2024 at CCS24 @css-conference.bsky.social is now open! Submit and prepare for a wonderful full day event of cutting-edge research on urban complexity urban-sys-net.weebly.com/call-for-abs... @martikagv.bsky.social @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social