Publications

This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.

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2026

When Chatbots Accommodate: What AI Companions Optimize for in Vulnerable Conversations

Minh Duc Chu, Yifan Wu, Zhiyi Chen, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Luca Luceri
arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.04431,  2026

How Far Will They Go? Red-Teaming Online Influence with Large Language Models

Daniel C Ruiz, Anna Serbina, Ashwin Rao, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22880,  2026

Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks

Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceri, Leonardo Blas, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, 4898-4909,  2026

Emergent coordinated behaviors in networked LLM agents: Modeling the strategic dynamics of information operations

Gian Marco Orlando, Jinyi Ye, Valerio La Gatta, Mahdi Saeedi, Vincenzo Moscato, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, 4805-4816,  2026

Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity

Tuğrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote, Priyanka Dey, Keng-Chi Chang, Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Cody Buntain, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, Fil Menczer
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10566,  2026

Information Pathways in Online Science Communication: The Role of Platform Actors and News Media

Alexandros Efstratiou, Giuseppe Russo, Luca Luceri
ICWSM'26 – 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,  2026

What do people want to fact-check?

Bijean Ghafouri, Dorsaf Sallami, Luca Luceri, Taylor Lynn Curtis, Jean-Francois Godbout, Emilio Ferrara, Reihaneh Rabbany
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.10935,  2026

Growth First, Care Second? Tracing the Landscape of LLM Value Preferences in Everyday Dilemmas

Zhiyi Chen, Eun Cheol Choi, Yingjia Luo, Xinyi Wang, Yulei Xiao, Aizi Yang, Luca Luceri
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.04456,  2026

Harm in AI-Driven Societies: An Audit of Toxicity Adoption on Chirper.ai

Erica Coppolillo, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01090,  2026

Harm in AI-Driven Societies: An Audit of Toxicity Adoption on Chirper. ai

Erica Coppolillo, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01090,  2026

2025

Synthetic politics: Prevalence, spreaders, and emotional reception of AI-generated political images on X

Zhiyi Chen, Jinyi Ye, Beverlyn Tsai, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Best …,  2025

Auditing political exposure bias: Algorithmic amplification on Twitter/X during the 2024 US presidential election

Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and …,  2025

The susceptibility paradox in online social influence

Luca Luceri, Jinyi Ye, Julie Jiang, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media …,  2025

Moral values underpinning COVID-19 online communication patterns

Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 2642-2650,  2025

Tracking the 2024 US presidential election chatter on Tiktok: a public multimodal dataset

Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar, Joyston Menezes, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 773-776,  2025

Network-informed prompt engineering against organized astroturf campaigns under extreme class imbalance

Nikos Kanakaris, Heng Ping, Xiongye Xiao, Nesreen K Ahmed, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Paul Bogdan
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 2651-2660,  2025

Large-scale detection of multilingual coordinated activity on Telegram

Leonardo Blas, Diya Saraf, Tanishq Salkar, Nora Adadurova, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
npj Complexity 2 (1), 33,  2025

Predicting Online Search Success from Self-Reported Skills, Search Behavior, Domain Knowledge, and Task Evaluations: Implications for Teaching Information Literacy

Martin Hermida, Luca Botturi, Loredana Addiamando, Marzia Galloni, Chiara Beretta, Felipe Cardoso, Luca Luceri, Azza Bouleimen, Silvia Giordano, Mirna Saad
MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 269-294,  2025

Predicting, evaluating, and explaining top misinformation spreaders via archetypal user behavior

Enrico Verdolotti, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
Online Social Networks and Media 50, 100336,  2025

Optimizing Patient Care with Artificial Intelligence: Advanced Applications in Cardiac Intensive Care

Mauro Chiarito, Alessandro Giaj Levra, Luca Luceri
The First Steps of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology: Will We Still Need …,  2025