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12 Mar 2026 10:30

Fighting Social Polarization with Open Source Tools: How we are building Unbubble Hub

Aula A - Edificio ZETA B | Campus Scientifico

Speaker:
Carlo Martinucci, https://www.unbubble.news

Abstract:
Social media algorithms systematically reward outrage and division, shaping how millions of people understand the world. But building tools to counteract this is itself a hard problem, technically, epistemologically, and ethically. In this seminar I'll walk through the journey of Unbubble News (https://www.unbubble.news), from the initial diagnosis of the polarization problem to our current open-source pipeline for analyzing how different news sources cover the same events. I'll show concretely how we extract claims from articles, find other sources, and surface different perspectives, and how we build all of this using AI-assisted development with Claude Code, where the developer's role shifts from writing code to directing an agent. The session will close with a discussion of open problems and potential student projects within Unbubble Hub (https://github.com/UnbubbleHub), our open research community.

Bio sketch:
Carlo Martinucci is a mathematician and software engineer, co-founder of Unbubble News, a startup that fights social polarization by fostering informed, multi-perspective engagement with the news, and of Unbubble Hub, its open research community. He worked from 2021 to 2025 as a Tech Lead at Bending Spoons. He regularly speaks at conferences and public events on artificial intelligence, making technical mechanisms accessible to broader audiences and exploring how they shape the ongoing legal and ethical debate.

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

Paolo Falcarin

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