Figure 4

Emotional range for messages posted on Twitter by verified-unverified accounts and with URLs associated to five different political leaning. For each panel, we quantified statistics of tweets across the emotional range (−1, +1) according to the political leaning of the sources and the verified/un-verified status of the users. The left panel reports the 10M random sample of tweets as a baseline, while the central one is about the vaccine tweets. The right panel shows the percentage difference between vaccine and baseline data for each cell. We show how emotional responses can became a sort of marker for different ideological position, especially for the left-center, center and center-right categories. An interesting result is shown by the verified accounts through which the emotional responses vary at different scales, reaching high negative and positive values