Fabio Giglietto

As of August 2026, Fabio Giglietto is Full Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate. His teaching has included courses on Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis. His research sits at the intersection of computational social science, the analysis of digital platforms and political communication, with a particular focus on information disorders and coordinated behaviour on social media. He is a founding partner of Digit Srl, a benefit-corporation spin-off of the university that develops digital platforms for sustainability, civic participation, social innovation and the dissemination of science.

In 2017 he founded the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), the umbrella for his research line, which he has coordinated since and which remained active as of August 2026. MINE hosted a series of externally funded projects on Italian media coverage and the influence of social media on elections, public opinion and health information, all of which had concluded by February 2026. Within MINE he co-developed CooRnet, an open-source R package that introduced the Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior detection method and was adopted by researchers, journalists and fact-checkers internationally. CooRnet's development ended after Meta shut down CrowdTangle in August 2024, but its methodology informed downstream tools such as CooRTweet, an independent package built by other researchers.

At the European level, he led Work Package 4 of the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which developed AI-based tools for countering disinformation and concluded in October 2025, and was a partner on PROMPT, a European Commission project monitoring disinformation narratives in Europe that concluded in February 2026. As an independent expert he served on the Joint Research Centre's expert group on systemic risks of very large online platforms, a study under Article 40(12) of the Digital Services Act whose summary reports he authored and which were delivered in 2026; as of August 2026 he also held an appointment, running to September 2026, as evaluator and rapporteur for the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. His 2025 working paper on Meta's political content reduction policy was cited in a written question to the European Commission at the European Parliament in 2026, and between January and April 2026 it drew national media coverage in Italy, including Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Resto del Carlino, Open and Lumsanews.

As of August 2026 he is a member of the International Communication Association, the Association of Internet Researchers and the Italian Association for Political Communication, and he has served on the board of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics.