Our latest work, titled "Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots" was published in Plos One on September 22, 2017! In this study,…

My latest work titled "Contagion dynamics of extremist propaganda in social networks" has been published on Information Sciences. The study aims at modeling and understanding the diffusion of extremist propaganda,…

My latest work titled "Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election" investigates the #MacronLeaks disinformation campaign that occurred in the run up to…

Our work titled Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization has been accepted for publication at the prestigious International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017) to be…

I was selected as recipient of the 2016 Junior Scientific Award by the Complex System Society! The award reads: Emilio Ferrara is one of the most active and successful young researchers in the…

Our paper titled Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion was published on the November 2016 issue of First Monday and selected as Editor's featured article! We…

S Agreste, S Catanese, P De Meo, E Ferrara, G Fiumara. Network structure and resilience of Mafia syndicates. Information Sciences, 2016 Useful links: Journal page | Arxiv In this paper in collaboration…

E Ferrara, Z Yang. Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media. PLoS ONE, 2015 Useful links: Journal page Spotlight: How Emotions Spread On Twitter from USC Viterbi on Vimeo. Our recent work on…