Giuseppe Russo

Surveys provide valuable insights into public opinion and behavior, but their execution is costly and slow. Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as a scalable, low-cost substitute for human respondents, but their outputs are often biased and yield invalid estimates. We study the interp...

The interaction between fringe subcultures and mainstream online communities poses significant challenges for understanding discourse on social media.In this work, we investigate whether users active in conspiracy-focused communities exhibit detectable linguistic signatures when participating in...