Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, where his academic focus lies at the intersection of computational social science, the analysis of digital platforms, and political communication. His research primarily investigates information disorders and coordinated behavior on social media. He shares his expertise by teaching courses on Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis, reflecting his commitment to understanding and addressing contemporary challenges in the digital landscape. Professor Giglietto completed his doctoral studies at the same institution, building a strong foundation for his specialized work.

He is the founder and coordinator of the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), an initiative established at the University of Urbino in 2017. MINE has served as an institutional umbrella for a succession of externally funded sub-projects, exploring Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on electoral processes, public opinion, and health information. Within the MINE program, Professor Giglietto co-developed CooRnet, an open-source R package that introduced the influential Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) detection method. CooRnet is now operationally discontinued following the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle in August 2024; however, the CLSB methodology it pioneered continues to be applied in downstream tools like the independently maintained CooRTweet R package, of which he is not a co-developer.

On the European front, Professor Giglietto played a significant role as WP4 Leader for the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which concluded in October 2025 and focused on developing AI-based tools for countering disinformation. He also contributed as a Partner on PROMPT, a European Commission initiative dedicated to monitoring disinformation narratives, which concluded in February 2026. While all externally funded MINE sub-projects have now concluded, the MINE program itself remains active as the institutional framework for his ongoing research line, though currently without active external grants. He is an active member of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and the Italian Association for Political Communication, and has served on the board of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics.