About the Authors

Alessandro Bessi

Affiliations IUSS Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia, Italy, Laboratory of Computational Social Science, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Fabiana Zollo

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Social Science, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Michela Del Vicario

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Social Science, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Antonio Scala

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Social Science, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, ISC-CNR UoS Sapienza, Roma, Italy

Guido Caldarelli

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Social Science, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, ISC-CNR UoS Sapienza, Roma, Italy, London Institute of Mathematical Science, London, United Kingdom

Walter Quattrociocchi

walterquattrociocchi@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Social Science, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB WQ. Performed the experiments: AB FZ MDV AS GC WQ. Analyzed the data: AB FZ MDV AS WQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB FZ MDV AS WQ. Wrote the paper: AB FZ MDV AS GC WQ.