University of Urbino
Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies
Fabio Giglietto is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, where he also earned his doctorate. His scientific activity is deeply rooted at the intersection of computational social science, the analysis of digital platforms, and political communication. With a specific focus on understanding information disorders and coordinated behavior on social media, his research addresses critical contemporary challenges. He currently teaches courses on Generative AI and Media and Digital Social Network Analysis, sharing his insights into the evolving landscape of digital communication and its profound societal impact.
He is the founder and coordinator of the Mapping Italian News Research Program (MINE) at the University of Urbino, active since 2017. MINE serves as an institutional umbrella for his research line, investigating 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 influential Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) detection method. While CooRnet is now discontinued operationally due to the shutdown of Meta's CrowdTangle, its methodology continues to be applied, notably in the independently maintained CooRTweet R package. All external MINE sub-projects have now concluded, though the programme itself remains active.
On the European front, Professor
Giglietto, F., & Puschmann, C. (2026). From the Wild West to the Walled Garden. M/C Journal. https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3257
Giglietto, F. (2025). "A Pretty Blunt Approach": Meta's Political Content Reduction Policy and Italian Parliamentarians' Facebook Visibility. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8dqag_v2
Giglietto, F. (2025). The State of Social Media Research APIs & Tools in the Digital Service Act Era. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16269197
Giglietto, F. (2025). Manipolazione dei media ed influenza digitale. Sfide, tecnologie e risposte. .
Giglietto, F. (2025). Viralità. .
Research programme active at the University of Urbino since 2017, investigating Italian media coverage and the impact of social media on electoral processes, public opinion and health information. MINE has hosted a succession of externally funded sub-projects (listed separately below). All sub-grants are now concluded; the programme remains active as the institutional and intellectual umbrella for the PI's ongoing research line, with no active external grant at present.
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European Commission project (DG CNECT) dedicated to monitoring disinformation narratives in 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. MINE sub-project.
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Horizon Europe project developing AI-based tools to assist journalists and fact-checkers in verifying multimedia content and countering disinformation. As WP4 Leader, Fabio Giglietto led the work package focused on detection of coordinated behaviour and inauthentic networks spreading misleading content. MINE sub-project.
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