Isolation and cohesion facilitate information spread on social media

Abstract

Isolation and cohesion of polarized communities facilitate the coordinated information spread on social media. On Twitter, a few influencers controlled right-wing groups, having a more rigid hierarchy and speeding up the coordinated dissemination of information during elections.

Ruben Interian

Professor of Computer Science

My research field is Computational Social Science, focusing specifically on studying social phenomena through the analysis of individuals’ interaction networks