About the Authors

Alessandro Bessi

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

Mauro Coletto

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

George Alexandru Davidescu

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

Antonio Scala

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Social Science, Networks Dept IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, ISC-CNR Uos “Sapienza”, Roma, Italy

Guido Caldarelli

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Social Science, Networks Dept IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, ISC-CNR Uos “Sapienza”, Roma, Italy

Walter Quattrociocchi

walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Social Science, Networks Dept IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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