AN avalanche of tweets, which reach peaks of five or six million per day. The Coronavirus is an epidemic, and also on the social and faithfully follows in the steps of that in the physical world. Photography, in continuous evolution, has taken the study of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler of Trento. Online platform that provides a framework on the relationship between the evolution of the epidemic of Covid-19, and the dynamics of information on social media.

“For each message, we can figure out if this is a post of a person or a bot, and in the second case, if it comes from a verified account or instead of one non-verified,” says Manlio De Domenico , physical of complex systems and the head of the Unit Common Lab to the Foundation.