In Social Network science, and especially in the Social Media field, the research of
communities is still an open and challenging task, mostly for what concerns the reliability of the results obtained. When dealing with hashtag networks, the research of communities is related to the identification of topics, which is a challenging achievement. Moreover, when dealing with political debates, which is our study’s aim, it is even more complex. In this work, we aim to look for reliable communities on a co-occurrence hashtag network related to the Italian Political campaign (2022). To achieve this goal, we applied two different procedures to compare and validate different community detection algorithms.
