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Fabio Giglietto, PhD, holds the esteemed position of Professor of Internet Studies at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies, University of Urbino Carlo Bo. With a profound dedication to exploring the intricate relationships between social systems, media, and digital technologies, his teaching and research delve deep into the theory of information, communication, and society. Giglietto's scholarly contributions are widely recognized, with numerous publications in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Communication, Information, Communication & Society, and the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, to name a few.

Throughout his illustrious career, Professor Giglietto has been at the forefront of examining the dynamics of social media, disinformation, and computational social science. His critical analysis on the manipulation of media during the Italian elections and the exploration of discourse strategies surrounding significant social events illustrate his capacity to blend theoretical frameworks with empirical research effectively. Notably, his work "The open laboratory: Limits and possibilities of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as a research data source" underscores his innovative approach to leveraging social media platforms as valuable data sources for academic research.

In recent years, Giglietto has expanded his research interests to include the impact of digital technologies on society, with a particular focus on the phenomena of disinformation and social media analysis. His engagement in various research projects and collaborations reflects his commitment to advancing knowledge in these critical areas. Furthermore, his active presence on professional and academic social media platforms, such as LinkedIn and BlueSky, provides insights into his ongoing projects and interests, including his recent endeavors into the study of disinformation and its effects on the public discourse. Through his work, Professor Giglietto continues to contribute significantly to the understanding of the digital society, making his expertise invaluable to both the academic community and the broader society.

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Recent Publications

TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Choucair, T., Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., Bernhard, J., Boomgaarden, H., Oliveira, B., Maia, R., Vodden, L., Esau, K., Bruns, A., Svegaard, S., Farfan, K., Meyer, H., Puschmann, C., Brüggemann, M., Giglietto, F., Rossi, L., Righetti, N., & Marino, G. (2025). TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.14102

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THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA

Marino, G., Almeida Paroni, B., & Giglietto, F. (2024). THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13999

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Analisi Computazionale del Parallelismo Politico in Italia: Il Caso delle Elezioni 2022

Giglietto, F. (2024). Analisi Computazionale del Parallelismo Politico in Italia: Il Caso delle Elezioni 2022. .

Evaluating Embedding Models for Clustering Italian Political News: A Comparative Study of Text-Embedding-3-Large and UmBERTo

Giglietto, F. (2024). Evaluating Embedding Models for Clustering Italian Political News: A Comparative Study of Text-Embedding-3-Large and UmBERTo. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2j9ed

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Facebook reactions in the context of politics and social issues: a systematic literature review

Anwar, S., & Giglietto, F. (2024). Facebook reactions in the context of politics and social issues: a systematic literature review. Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1379265

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Research Projects

vera.ai - VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

An EU-funded Horizon Europe project developing advanced AI-based tools to assist journalists and fact-checkers in verifying multimedia content and combating disinformation. As Work Package 4 leader, I focus on the detection of coordinated behavior and inauthentic networks spreading misleading content.

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PROMPT - Predictive Research On Misinformation and Narratives Propagation Trajectories

An EU-funded initiative focused on detecting and analyzing disinformation narratives across Europe, addressing sensitive issues including the war in Ukraine, LGBTQI+ rights, and European elections through the development of language models, monitoring dashboards, and educational resources for fact-checkers and journalists.

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MINE - Mapping Italian News Research Program

A research program investigating Italian news media coverage and the impact of social media on Italian elections, leveraging data from Social Science One and grant funding from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

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📚 FG's #toread

Rabble-rousers in the new king's court: Algorithmic effects on account visibility in pre-X twitter

Efstratiou, Alexandros, Duskin, Kayla, Starbird, Kate, Spiro, Emma

(2025)

Algorithmic effects on social media platforms have come under recent scrutiny, with several works reporting that right-leaning accounts tend to rec...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

‘More than a feeling’ – Facebook reactions and the sharing of political posts during Scandinavian elections

Kalsnes, Bente, Larsson, Anders Olof

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Social media platforms offer political actors a wide range of opportunities to present their main issues, engage with their constituencies and mobi...

Article Inf. Commun. Soc.

Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues

Lin, Hause, Czarnek, Gabriela, Lewis, Benjamin, White, Joshua P, Berinsky, Adam J, Costello, Thomas, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G

Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2025)

There is great public concern about the potential use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for political persuasion and the resulting impacts...

Nature Article

Multimodal narratives of climate denial: A novel, visual-first methodology for analysing conspiracy theory discourse on Instagram

Gardam, Caroline, Riedlinger, Michelle, Angus, Daniel, (Jane) Tan, Xue Ying

Elsevier BV (2025)

Published in Discourse Context \& Media | Year: 2025 | Authors: Gardam, Caroline, Riedlinger, Michelle, Angus, Daniel, (Jane) Tan, Xue Ying

Discourse Context \& Media Article

How public involvement can improve the science of AI

Matias, J Nathan, Price, Megan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025)

As AI systems from decision-making algorithms to generative AI are deployed more widely, computer scientists and social scientists alike are being ...

Article Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. evaluation citizen science participatory research policy AI

The persistence of informational manipulation and the appropriation of emerging events

FitzGerald, Katherine M, Whelan-Shamy, Daniel, Graham, Timothy

Routledge (2025)

Year: 2025 | Authors: FitzGerald, Katherine M, Whelan-Shamy, Daniel, Graham, Timothy

Incollection

Platform-independent experiments on social media

Allen, Jennifer, Tucker, Joshua A

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2025)

Changing algorithms with artificial intelligence tools can influence partisan animosity.

Article Science

What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia

Triedman, Harold, Mantzarlis, Alexios

(2025)

Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we pr...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

The spread of pro- and anti-vaccine views by coordinated communities on facebook during COVID-19 pandemic

Song, Yunya, Zhang, Yin, Zou, Sheng, Yang, Xian, Huang, Qintao

Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2025)

Abstract The widespread dissemination of problematic vaccine-related content during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges to public he...

J. Comput. Soc. Sci. Article

RIP Twitter API: A eulogy to its vast research contributions

Murtfeldt, Ryan, Paik, Sejin, Alterman, Naomi, Kahveci, Ihsan, West, Jevin D

(2025)

Since 2006, Twitter's APIs have been rich sources of data for researchers studying social phenomena such as misinformation, public communication, c...

arXiv [cs.CY] Article

Emergent coordinated behaviors in networked LLM agents: Modeling the strategic dynamics of information operations

Orlando, Gian Marco, Ye, Jinyi, La Gatta, Valerio, Saeedi, Mahdi, Moscato, Vincenzo, Ferrara, Emilio, Luceri, Luca

(2025)

Generative agents are rapidly advancing in sophistication, raising urgent questions about how they might coordinate when deployed in online ecosyst...

Article arXiv [cs.MA]

What is going on? An evidence-frame framework for analyzing online rumors about election integrity

Starbird, Kate, Prochaska, Stephen, Yamron, Ben

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2025)

Pervasive falsehoods that erode trust in election processes are of increasing concern to democracies around the world. Misleading claims like these...

Article Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.

Deep storytelling: Collective sensemaking and layers of meaning in U.s. elections

Prochaska, Stephen, Vera, Julie, Lew Tan, Douglas, Yamron, Ben, Venuto, Sylvie, Kejriwal, Amaya, Chu, Sarah, Starbird, Kate

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2025)

Misinformation and disinformation about elections remain pressing concerns for researchers, policymakers, and the public. Critics, however, argue t...

Article Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.

The risks of industry influence in tech research

Bak-Coleman, Joseph, O'connor, Cailin, Bergstrom, Carl, West, Jevin

(2025)

Emerging information technologies like social media, search engines, and AI can have a broad impact on public health, political institutions, socia...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies

Frischlich, Lena, Olsson, Henrik, Roy, Abhishek, Schulze, Heidi, Rhodes, Stan, Mansheim, Alison

Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2025)

Abstract Debates about misinformation and countermeasures are often driven by dramatic analogies, such as “infodemic” or “information warfare”. Whi...

Article Npj Complex.

Behind the screen: The use of Facebook accounts with inauthentic behavior during European elections

Oprea, Bogdan, Pașnicu, Paula, Niculae, Alexandru-Ninel, Bonciu, Constantin-Cozmin, Tudorașcu-Dobre, Dragoș

Cogitatio (2025)

Technology has reshaped political communication, allowing fake engagement to drive real influence in the democratic process. Hyperactive social med...

fake accounts political communication Facebook Article inauthentic behavior manipulation election campaign Meta Media Commun. social media

Leveraging VLLMs for visual clustering: Image-to-text mapping shows increased semantic capabilities and interpretability

Arminio, Luigi, Magnani, Matteo, Piqueras, Matías, Rossi, Luca, Segerberg, Alexandra

SAGE Publications (2025)

As visual content becomes increasingly prominent on social media, automated image categorization is vital for computational social science efforts ...

Article Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev.

Real time detection of coordinated bots on Bluesky

Rodríguez Farrés, Pol, Masali, Athina, Cerquides, Jesus

IOS Press (2025)

The growing popularity of social media platforms such as X, Instagram, TikTok, and, more recently, Bluesky, has led to an increase in fake data and...

Incollection

EXPRESS: A short history of misinformation-at-scale and efforts to mitigate it

Donovan, Joan

SAGE Publications (2025)

This article traces the social construction of misinformation-at-scale by charting the diverse content moderation methods adopted by social media c...

Article J. Public Policy Mark.

Language Disparities in Moderation Workforce Allocation by Social Media Platforms

Tonneau, Manuel, Liu, Diyi, McGrady, Ryan, Zheng, Kevin, Schroeder, Ralph, Zuckerman, Ethan, Hale, Scott

(2025)

Year: 2025 | Authors: Tonneau, Manuel, Liu, Diyi, McGrady, Ryan, Zheng, Kevin, Schroeder, Ralph, Zuckerman, Ethan, Hale, S...

Article

Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus

Kuznetsova, Daria

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Published in J. Inf. Technol. Politics | Year: 2025 | Authors: Kuznetsova, Daria

J. Inf. Technol. Politics Article

Ranking authority: A critical audit of YouTube’s content moderation

Jurg, Daniel, Romano, Salvatore, Rieder, Bernhard

(2025)

This chapter examines YouTube’s content moderation practices during the 2024 European Parliamentary elections. Using search results from the Nether...

Article

Suspicious stories: taking narrative seriously in disinformation research

Sadler, Neil

Oxford University Press (OUP) (2025)

Abstract The concept of narrative has been widely employed in the disinformation literature. Nonetheless, its use has been dominated by loose intui...

Commun. Theory Article

The medium is not the message: Deconfounding text embeddings via linear concept erasure

Fan, Yu, Tian, Yang, Ravfogel, Shauli, Sachan, Mrinmaya, Ash, Elliott, Hoyle, Alexander

(2025)

Embedding-based similarity metrics between text sequences can be influenced not just by the content dimensions we most care about, but can also be ...

arXiv [cs.CL] Article

Multimodal coordinated online behavior: Trade-offs and strategies

Mannocci, Lorenzo, Cresci, Stefano, Magnani, Matteo, Monreale, Anna, Tesconi, Maurizio

(2025)

Coordinated online behavior, which spans from beneficial collective actions to harmful manipulation such as disinformation campaigns, has become a ...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification

Meher, Shreyas, Brandt, Patrick T

SAGE Publications (2025)

We present ConflLlama, demonstrating how efficient fine-tuning of large language models can advance automated classification tasks in political sci...

Res. Politics Article

Demystifying hashtag hijacking in the public opinion game: attention, narratives, and social bots

Zhao, Bei, Ren, Wujiong, He, Yuan, Zhang, Hongzhong

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Published in Inf. Commun. Soc. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Zhao, Bei, Ren, Wujiong, He, Yuan, Zhang, Hongzhong

Article Inf. Commun. Soc.

Shapeshifters and starseeds: Populist knowledge production, generous epistemology, and disinformation on U.s. conspiracy TikTok

Marwick, Alice, Pippert, Courtlyn, Furl, Katherine, Schnabel, Elaine

SAGE Publications (2025)

This article investigates the intersection of identity, power, and knowledge production on U.S. ConspiracyTok, a genre of TikTok videos promoting c...

Article Soc. Media Soc.

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations

Entrena-Serrano, Carlos, Degeling, Martin, Romano, Salvatore, Çetin, Raziye Buse

(2025)

Following the Digital Services Act of 2023, which requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) to fac...

arXiv [cs.CY] Article

Misinformation beyond traditional feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp deactivation experiment in Brazil

Ventura, Tiago, Majumdar, Rajeshwari, Nagler, Jonathan, Tucker, Joshua

University of Chicago Press (2025)

Published in J. Polit. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Ventura, Tiago, Majumdar, Rajeshwari, Nagler, Jonathan, Tucker, Joshua

J. Polit. Article

True costs of misinformation| mountains of evidence: Processual “redpilling” as a Socio-technical effect of disinformation

Marwick, Alice E, Furl, Katherine

(2025)

How do people come to believe Far-Right, extremist, and conspiratorial ideas they encounter online? This article examines how participants in prima...

evidence Article extremism online radicalization Int. J. Commun. disinformation redpill Far-Right

From fake news to real protests: WhatsApp’s role in Brazilian political coordination

Kansaon, Daniel, Melo, Philipe de Freitas, Zannettou, Savvas, Benevenuto, Fabricio

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2025)

The growth of social networks has raised concerns about the misuse of these platforms by disinformation campaigns, social bots, and coordinated act...

Article Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

They want to pretend not to understand: The Limits of Current LLMs in Interpreting Implicit Content of Political Discourse

Paci, Walter, Panunzi, Alessandro, Pezzelle, Sandro

(2025)

Implicit content plays a crucial role in political discourse, where speakers systematically employ pragmatic strategies such as implicatures and pr...

arXiv [cs.CL] Article

Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives

Goel, Pranav, Green, Jon, Lazer, David, Resnik, Philip S

Nature Publishing Group (2025)

Much of the research quantifying volume and spread of online misinformation measures the construct at the source level, identifying a set of specif...

Nat. Hum. Behav. Article

Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes

Renault, Thomas, Mosleh, Mohsen, Rand, David G

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025)

We use crowd-sourced assessments from X’s Community Notes program to examine whether there are partisan differences in the sharing of misleading in...

Article Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.

Quantifying narrative similarity across languages

Waight, Hannah, Messing, Solomon, Shirikov, Anton, Roberts, Margaret E, Nagler, Jonathan, Greenfield, Jason, Brown, Megan A, Aslett, Kevin, Tucker, Joshua A

SAGE Publications (2025)

How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how inter...

Sociol. Methods Res. Article

Forgetful by design? A critical audit of YouTube's search API for academic research

Rieder, Bernhard, Padilla, Adrian, Coromina, Oscar

(2025)

This paper critically audits the search endpoint of YouTube's Data API (v3), a common tool for academic research. Through systematic weekly searche...

Article arXiv [cs.IR]

Post-hoc evaluation of nodes influence in information cascades: The case of coordinated accounts

Di Marco, Niccolò, Brunetti, Sara, Cinelli, Matteo, Quattrociocchi, Walter

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2025)

In the last few years, social media has gained an unprecedented amount of attention, playing a pivotal role in shaping the contemporary landscape o...

ACM Trans. Web Article

The cost of reach: Testing the role of ad delivery algorithms in online political campaigns

Votta, Fabio, Dobber, Tom, Guinaudeau, Benjamin, Helberger, Natali, de Vreese, Claes

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Published in Polit. Commun. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Votta, Fabio, Dobber, Tom, Guinaudeau, Benjamin, Helberger, Natali, de Vreese, Claes

Polit. Commun. Article

A systematic review of echo chamber research: comparative analysis of conceptualizations, operationalizations, and varying outcomes

Hartmann, David, Wang, Sonja Mei, Pohlmann, Lena, Berendt, Bettina

Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2025)

Abstract This systematic review synthesizes research on echo chambers and filter bubbles to explore the reasons behind dissent regarding their exis...

J. Comput. Soc. Sci. Article

Coordinated link sharing on Facebook

Yang, Yunkang, Paudel, Ramesh, McShan, Jordan, Hindman, Matthew, Huang, H Howie, Broniatowski, David

Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2025)

Malicious actors regularly attempt to manipulate social media using coordinated posting. Many existing methods for detecting this coordination, tho...

Coordination Facebook Article Sci. Rep. Social media

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet and content level of news circulation on Twitter

Gaisbauer, Felix, Pournaki, Armin, Ohme, Jakob

(2025)

News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

Coordinated inauthentic behavior on TikTok: Challenges and opportunities for detection in a video-first ecosystem

Luceri, Luca, Salkar, Tanishq Vijay, Balasubramanian, Ashwin, Pinto, Gabriela, Sun, Chenning, Ferrara, Emilio

(2025)

Detecting coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) is central to the study of online influence operations. However, most methods focus on text-centri...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

The effects of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US election

Allcott, Hunt, Gentzkow, Matthew, Levy, Ro'ee, Crespo-Tenorio, Adriana, Dumas, Natasha, Mason, Winter, Moehler, Devra, Barbera, Pablo, Brown, Taylor, Cisneros, Juan Carlos, Dimmery, Drew, Freelon, Deen, González-Bailón, Sandra, Guess, Andrew, Kim, Young Mie, Lazer, David, Malhotra, Neil, Nair-Desai, Sameer, Nyhan, Brendan, de Queiroz, Ana Carolina Paixao, Pan, Jennifer, Settle, Jaime, Thorson, Emily, Tromble, Rebekah, Rivera, Carlos Velasco, Wittenbrink, Benjamin, Wojcieszak, Magdalena, Yang, Shiqi, Zahedian, Saam, Franco, Annie, de Jonge, Chad Kiewiet, Stroud, Natalie Jomini, Tucker, Joshua

National Bureau of Economic Research (2025)

We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have polit...

Techreport

The end of trust and safety?: Examining the future of content moderation and upheavals in professional online safety efforts

Moran, Rachel Elizabeth, Schafer, Joseph, Bayar, Mert, Starbird, Kate

ACM (2025)

Year: 2025 | Authors: Moran, Rachel Elizabeth, Schafer, Joseph, Bayar, Mert, Starbird, Kate

Inproceedings

Emergent structures of attention on social media are driven by amplification and triad transitivity

Smith, Alyssa H, Green, Jon, F Welles, Brooke, Lazer, David

Oxford University Press (OUP) (2025)

As they evolve, social networks tend to form transitive triads more often than random chance and structural constraints would suggest. However, the...

triad transitivity Article PNAS Nexus social networks amplification social media tertius iungens

So long twitter, and thanks for all the tweets

Bastos, Marco T

Routledge (2025)

This chapter reviews the historical contribution of Twitter before it was rebranded as X in July 2023. Twitter was an open platform for social scie...

Article SSRN Electron. J.

The role of far-right party performance in shaping disinformation concerns of European voters: evidence from the 2024 European Parliament elections

Gattermann, Katjana, van den Hoogen, Elske, de Vreese, Claes

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Published in J. Eur. Public Policy | Year: 2025 | Authors: Gattermann, Katjana, van den Hoogen, Elske, de Vreese, Claes

Article J. Eur. Public Policy

The quality of connections: Deliberative reciprocity and inclusive listening as antidote to destructive polarization online

Esau, Katharina

SAGE Publications (2025)

Conflict and disagreement are integral to healthy democracies, but the extreme polarization observed on many social media platforms poses a serious...

Article Soc. Media Soc.

Untangling the furball: A practice mapping approach to the analysis of multimodal interactions in social networks

Bruns, Axel, Kasianenko, Kateryna, Suresh, Vish Padinjaredath, Dehghan, Ehsan, Vodden, Laura

SAGE Publications (2025)

This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalit...

Article Soc. Media Soc.

Evaluating how LLM annotations represent diverse views on contentious topics

Brown, Megan A, Atreja, Shubham, Hemphill, Libby, Wu, Patrick Y

(2025)

Researchers have proposed the use of generative large language models (LLMs) to label data for research and applied settings. This literature empha...

arXiv [cs.CL] Article

Platforms, politics, and the crisis of democracy: Connective action and the rise of illiberalism

Bennett, W Lance, Livingston, Steven

Cambridge University Press (CUP) (2025)

Democratic backsliding, the slow erosion of institutions, processes, and norms, has become more pronounced in many nations. Most scholars point to ...

Article Perspect. Politics

Advancing the study of political misinformation across countries and platforms—introduction to the special issue

Humprecht, Edda, Valenzuela, Sebastián, Esser, Frank, Tandoc, Edson

SAGE Publications (2025)

The global spread of political misinformation poses serious challenges to democracies, eroding trust and distorting public discourse. However, rese...

Int. J. Press Polit. Article

Multi-Modal Framing Analysis of News

Arora, Arnav, Yadav, Srishti, Antoniak, Maria, Belongie, Serge, Augenstein, Isabelle

arXiv (2025)

Automated frame analysis of political communication is a popular task in computational social science that is used to study how authors select aspe...

Machine Learning (cs.LG) Misc Computers and Society (cs.CY) arXiv [cs.CL] Computation and Language (cs.CL) FOS: Computer and information sciences

Influence operations as brokerage: Political-economic infrastructures of manipulation in the 2022 Philippine elections

Gaw, Fatima, Agonos, Mariam Jayne, Ruijgrok, Kris, Suarez, Gerard Martin

(2025)

This study conceptualizes influence operations (IOs), an enterprise that orchestrates manipulative and inauthentic activities to achieve political ...

Philippines Article Int. J. Commun. disinformation influence operations trolls elections computational propaganda brokerage

The discursive function of Meta’s Newsroom: How Meta frames the problem of problematic online content

Hurcombe, Edward, Dehghan, Ehsan, Vodden, Laura, Angus, Daniel

SAGE Publications (2025)

This article examines the social technology company Meta’s public communication on problematic content, via their official ‘Meta Newsroom’, within ...

Converg. Int. J. Res. New Media Technol. Article

Beyond interaction patterns: Assessing claims of coordinated inter-state information operations on twitter/X

Pantè, Valeria, Axelrod, David, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo, Ferrara, Emilio, Luceri, Luca

(2025)

Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strat...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

What did we learn about political communication from the Meta2020 partnership?

Munger, Kevin

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Published in Polit. Commun. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Munger, Kevin

Polit. Commun. Article

The news feed is not a black box: A longitudinal study of Facebook’s algorithmic treatment of news

McNally, Naoise, Bastos, Marco

Informa UK Limited (2025)

This study examines the effects of a series of significant algorithm changes within Facebook’s News Feed on user engagement with news content on th...

Digit. Journal. Article

When do parties lie? Misinformation and radical-right populism across 26 countries

Törnberg, Petter, Chueri, Juliana

SAGE Publications (2025)

The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as ...

Int. J. Press Polit. Article

Curation bubbles

Green, Jon, Mccabe, Stefan, Shugars, Sarah, Chwe, Hanyu, Horgan, Luke, Cao, Shuyang, Lazer, David

Cambridge University Press (CUP) (2025)

Information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information, an...

Article Am. Polit. Sci. Rev.

All the (fake) news that’s fit to share? News values in perceived misinformation across twenty-four countries

Nenno, Sami, Puschmann, Cornelius

SAGE Publications (2025)

While there is a strong scholarly interest surrounding the content of political misinformation online, much of this research concerns misinformatio...

Int. J. Press Polit. Article

Scaling open-ended survey responses using LLM-paired comparisons

DiGiuseppe, Matthew, Flynn, Michael E

(2025)

Survey researchers rely heavily on closed-ended questions to measure latent respondent characteristics like knowledge, policy positions, emotions, ...

Article SocArXiv

Positioning political texts with large language models by asking and averaging

Le Mens, Gaël, Gallego, Aina

Cambridge University Press (CUP) (2025)

Abstract We use instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Llama 3, MiXtral, or Aya to position political texts within policy and i...

Article Polit. Anal.

Network ripple effects: How Twitter deplatforming flipped authority structure and discourse of the Arizona Election Review community

Simeone, Michael, Corman, Steven R

SAGE Publications (2025)

Content moderation decisions can have variable impacts on the events and discourses they aim to regulate. This study analyzes Twitter data from bef...

SAGE Open Article

Best practices for source-based research on misinformation and news trustworthiness using NewsGuard

Lühring, Jula, Metzler, Hannah, Lazzaroni, Ruggero, Shetty, Apeksha, Lasser, Jana

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (2025)

Researchers need reliable and valid tools to identify cases of untrustworthy information when studying the spread of misinformation on digital plat...

Article J. Quant. Descr. Digit. Media

Facts or feelings? Leveraging emotionality as a fact-checking strategy on social media in the United States

Xue, Haoning, Zhang, Jingwen, Zhang, Xinzhi

SAGE Publications (2025)

Emotionality is a well-established strategy for boosting audience engagement on social media. While fact-checking is positioned to provide objectiv...

Article Soc. Media Soc.

How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of \#IStandWithPutin

Graham, Timothy

Informa UK Limited (2025)

Published in Crit. Stud. Media Commun. | Year: 2025 | Authors: Graham, Timothy

Crit. Stud. Media Commun. Article

Unsupervised framing analysis for social media discourse in polarizing events

Sarmiento, Hernan, Córdova, Ricardo, Ortiz, Jorge, Bravo-Marquez, Felipe, Santos, Marcelo, Valenzuela, Sebastián

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2025)

This study investigates the concept of frames in the realm of online polarization, with a focus on social media platforms. The research extends the...

ACM Trans. Web Article

Visual identities in troll farms: The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium

Bastos, Marco

SAGE Publications (2025)

The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium is a database of network propaganda and influence operations that includes 115,474 unique Twitter accoun...

Article Soc. Media Soc.

Platform polarization. Do alternative platforms drive discursive polarization?

Kristensen, Jakob Bæk, Kristensen, Jakob Bæk

(2025)

Published in Comun. Politica | Year: 2025 | Authors: Kristensen, Jakob Bæk, Kristensen, Jakob Bæk

Article Comun. Politica

Red-Teaming in the Public Interest

(2025)

This report offers a vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to c...

Techreport

TikTok ‘dogshows’ and the amplification of online incivility among Gen Z influencers in the Philippines

Cabbuag, Samuel I, Abidin, Crystal

SAGE Publications (2024)

Studies on digital platforms and online incivility have established that uses of humour can lean towards cyberbullying and hate speech. Focusing on...

Int. J. Cult. Stud. Article

Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms

Mosleh, Mohsen, Allen, Jennifer Nancy Lee, Rand, David Gertler

(2024)

In recent years, social media has become increasingly fragmented, as platforms evolve and new alternatives emerge. Yet most research studies a sing...

Article PsyArXiv

The diffusion and reach of (mis)information on Facebook during the U.s. 2020 election

González-Bailón, Sandra, Lazer, David, Barberá, Pablo, Godel, William, Allcott, Hunt, Brown, Taylor, Crespo-Tenorio, Adriana, Freelon, Deen, Gentzkow, Matthew, Guess, Andrew, Iyengar, Shanto, Kim, Young, Malhotra, Neil, Moehler, Devra, Nyhan, Brendan, Pan, Jennifer, Rivera, Carlos, Settle, Jaime, Thorson, Emily, Tromble, Rebekah, Wilkins, Arjun, Wojcieszak, Magdalena, Kiewiet de Jonge, Chad, Franco, Annie, Mason, Winter, Stroud, Natalie, Tucker, Joshua

Society for Sociological Science (2024)

Social media creates the possibility for rapid, viral spread of content, but how many posts actually reach millions? And is misinformation special ...

Article Sociol. Sci.

IOHunter: Graph foundation model to uncover online information operations

Minici, Marco, Luceri, Luca, Fabbri, Francesco, Ferrara, Emilio

(2024)

Social media platforms have become vital spaces for public discourse, serving as modern agoràs where a wide range of voices influence societal narr...

arXiv [cs.SI] Article

Beyond time delays: How web scraping distorts measures of online news consumption

Ulloa, Roberto, Mangold, Frank, Schmidt, Felix, Gilsbach, Judith, Stier, Sebastian

(2024)

As the exploration of digital behavioral data revolutionizes communication research, understanding the nuances of data collection methodologies bec...

arXiv [cs.CY] Article

Algorithmic media use and algorithm literacy: An integrative literature review

Gagrčin, Emilija, Naab, Teresa K, Grub, Maria F

SAGE Publications (2024)

Algorithms profoundly shape user experiences on digital platforms, raising concerns about their negative impacts and highlighting the importance of...

New Media Soc. Article

The post-API age of social media data access: Past, present, and future

Freelon, Deen, Monzer, Cristina, Jeon, Gayoung, Moy, Cameron, Williams, Natasha

SAGE Publications (2024)

Social media data have become a mainstay of social science research since the first application programming interfaces (APIs) debuted in the mid-20...

Article Ann. Am. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci.

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Costello, Thomas H, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2024)

Conspiracy theory beliefs are notoriously persistent. Influential hypotheses propose that they fulfill important psychological needs, thus resistin...

Article Science

The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine

Bösch, Marcus, Divon, Tom

SAGE Publications (2024)

TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation about the war in Ukraine. During the initial three month...

New Media Soc. Article

Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation

Budak, Ceren, Nyhan, Brendan, Rothschild, David M, Thorson, Emily, Watts, Duncan J

Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2024)

The controversy over online misinformation and social media has opened a gap between public discourse and scientific research. Public intellectuals...

Nature Article

Estimating the ideology of political YouTube videos

Lai, Angela, Brown, Megan A, Bisbee, James, Tucker, Joshua A, Nagler, Jonathan, Bonneau, Richard

Cambridge University Press (CUP) (2024)

Abstract We present a method for estimating the ideology of political YouTube videos. The subfield of estimating ideology as a latent variable has ...

Article Polit. Anal.

Political science. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook

Bakshy, Eytan, Messing, Solomon, Adamic, Lada A

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015)

Exposure to news, opinion, and civic information increasingly occurs through social media. How do these online networks influence exposure to persp...

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News & Updates

December 16, 2025

A groundbreaking discussion on the post-API age of social media data access was brought to attention by Prof. Giglietto, underscoring the critical shifts in how researchers can engage with social media data.
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December 12, 2025

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The latest commentary from Prof. Giglietto shed light on a substantial fine levied for data access breaches, emphasizing the impact on academic researchers and calling for compensation to be redistributed to the affected scholars.
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