Figure 2
Percentages of nodes in each discursive community, Italian COVID-19 dataset. Due to the presence of politicians and political parties from a specific political area, the various discursive communities are called following their political alignment. “PD” stays for the Italian Democratic Party (Partito Democratico); Italia Viva (“IV”) is the political party of the former prime Minister and former PD secretary Matteo Renzi, while M5S is the “Movimento 5 Stelle”, a political movement born on the web and being the most represented party in the Italian parliament at the time of the data collection. “FI” stays for Forza Italia, the political party of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, while the “DX” (Destra) community includes right wing parties as Lega and Fratelli d’Italia. The most crowded discursive community is the one of Media in which there are most of the online news outcasts and newspapers. The accounts for which it was not possible to assign a discursive community are in grey.
