🔥Now in press at PNAS Nexus 🔥

We provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of generative AI’s potential impacts on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare.

Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen…

Very interesting

From the cover of PNAS, our latest paper on how selective social interactions regulate the movement of fish schools. In collaboration with A. Puy, E. Gimeno, J. Torrents, P. Bartashevich, M.C. Miguel and Pawel Romanczuk 🇺🇦
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📣 Conosci la vera natura dell’odio online? Quali sono i pattern comportamentali che innescano il primo insulto dopo una pubblicazione sui social? Jaime D'Alessandro W. Quattrociocchi Ricerca Sapienza Sapienza Università di Roma Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli #hater #socialmedia fondazioneleonardo.com/stories/odio-o…

So nice to see Nature News & Views research briefing of W. Quattrociocchi Matteo Cinelli Andrea Baronchelli et al's @nature paper out last week. It does a great job summarizing the paper, which shows that long discussions online are the most toxic across platforms, topics & time: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nature Research Briefing about our last paper recently published in Nature.
Ricerca Sapienza Sapienza Università di Roma
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nel 2024 si vota in più di 70 Paesi e Meta sta per chiudere CrowdTangle, dopo averlo sventrato pian piano.

Nel mio corsivo sul Corriere della Sera provo a spiegare perché sarà un problema per ricercatori e giornalisti (e il Dsa potrebbe non bastare) corriere.it/opinioni/24_ap… ft W. Quattrociocchi

The picture is from ages ago but the webinar is today 😎

The debut event about my coming book, the wildest I have ever done, or ever will do. #TheMustHaveHowToManual #OrNot
hks.harvard.edu/events/how-bec…

Thanks to all the organizers for the kind invitation!

Long conversations online consistently exhibit higher toxicity, yet toxic language does not invariably discourage people from participating, and toxicity does not necessarily escalate as discussions evolve, according to a study in nature. go.nature.com/4axejE1

My treat of the day: reading Flora Graham's summary of W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper showing that online discussions show similar patterns across platforms: longer ones tend to be more toxic, but this doesn't stop engagement nature.com/articles/s4158…

Nature research paper: Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time go.nature.com/495fyZK

E se la tossicità online non fosse colpa dei social? Una nuova maxi-analisi rimette in discussione il ruolo delle piattaforme nel degradare il dibattito pubblico. Agli utenti in fondo “piace litigare”, spiega il coautore W. Quattrociocchi

✍️Otto Lanzavecchia
formiche.net/2024/03/social…

Did you know that online conversations show similar patterns across topics, platforms and time? W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper shows longer conversations are more toxic, but that this toxicity doesn't discourage participation nature.com/articles/s4158…

New study suggests that while social media changes over decades, conversation dynamics stay the same City, University of London phys.org/news/2024-03-s…

Dice W. Quattrociocchi che ci piace un sacco litigare sui social (e pubblica su nature) corriere.it/tecnologia/24_… sul Corriere della Sera

On ArXiv 'The inherent randomness of news virality on social media' (self-explanatory title) arxiv.org/abs/2401.17890

Finally Out. Cross-platform social dynamics: an analysis of ChatGPT and COVID-19 vaccine conversations.

nature.com/articles/s4159…