If you had the feeling that the online discussion about COVID-19 vaccines was biased depending on the actors, you are right.
Using #MachineLearning and #NetworkScience we have shown that being a human or a bot, verified or unverified (according to previous Twitter rules) and political leaning were relevant factors for choosing the words in posts and, accordingly, the corresponding emotions to trigger.
A genuine computational social science study, led by Anna Bertani for her Msc thesis, now published also in collaboration with Riccardo Gallotti and Pierluigi Sacco
