Fabio Giglietto

Fabio Giglietto is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate and currently teaches Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis. His scholarly work primarily bridges computational social science, the analysis of digital platforms, and political communication. Professor Giglietto’s research extensively focuses on understanding information disorders and detecting coordinated behavior on social media, reflecting a deep engagement with the complexities of the contemporary digital landscape.

He is the founder and coordinator of the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE), active at the University of Urbino since 2017, which serves as an institutional umbrella for his research line. MINE has investigated Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on electoral processes, public opinion, and health information through a succession of externally funded sub-projects. Within MINE, Professor Giglietto co-developed CooRnet, an open-source R package that introduced the Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) detection method. CooRnet is now operationally discontinued following the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle in August 2024, though its methodology lives on in the independently maintained CooRTweet R package, for which he is not a co-developer. While MINE remains his ongoing research line, no external grants are currently active under the program.

On the European front, Professor Giglietto recently served as WP4 Leader for the Horizon Europe project vera.ai, which concluded in October 2025, focusing on developing AI-based tools for countering disinformation. He also acted as a Partner on PROMPT, a European Commission initiative dedicated to monitoring disinformation narratives across Europe, concluding in February 2026. He is an active member of several professional organizations, including 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 Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association. Furthermore, he is a founding partner (socio fondatore) of Digit Srl, a benefit-corporation spin-off of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, which develops digital platforms for sustainability, civic participation, social innovation, and scientific dissemination.